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Thermal cutting operations: does more speed make you more productive?

Publication: Metal Center News
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04 		Format: Online - approximately 687 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
With technology being what it is today, machine tools are traveling at speeds that were unheard of just a decade ago. In the race to do it bigger, faster and better, machine tool manufacturers need to ask themselves, how fast is too fast?

Should productivity jeopardize an operator's safety, or is there a better way to maximize throughput? Thermal cutting machine manufacturers are getting caught up in the "speed trap" along with every other machine tool producer, but should proceed with caution.

When an operator is running a machine from a fixed position control station, he is out of harm's way, and...

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