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A typical job-shop cuts a wide variety of materials
ranging from foam, plastics, hardwood and even aluminum. Services may
include design, fabrication, assembly and finishing to accommodate their
customer’s unique needs. These processes, for the most part, were 100%
manual labor for a majority of shops before the last 10 years. The
investment of a CNC tool was simply too much for many shops to bear, and
as a result they lost their competitive edge.
With increasing numbers of CNC machines on the
market, the number of computerized job shops has been on the rise. These
days, in order to be competitive, a CNC machine is essential to the
vitality of the business. What used to take hours or days in setup and
fixturing can be boiled down to minutes or hours using any number of
intuitive software packages and a robust CNC router. With the addition
of a CNC router in your shop, you will notice that you now have a lot
more room in your dumpster. Efficient nesting of parts and perfect
toolpaths, eliminate waste, put more money in your pocket and help you
remain on top of your competition.
A whole new realm of possibilities for design,
cutting and assembly becomes available to shops who add a CNC cutting
tool. Instead of limiting your designs to what your current hand and
power tools can accomplish with jigs and elaborate setups, you can now
do things that no other tool in the shop can, reliably and quickly.
Curved dados, arches, complex 2D profiles & 3D reliefs are now possible
in any number of carvable materials. With an appropriate hardware and
software package, today’s smaller and medium sized shops can produce
parts more efficiently than larger shops. This ability to quickly tool
up and cut hardwood one minute, and perhaps acrylic sheet the next, is
what gives smaller shops a great advantage over larger competitors.
Smaller and medium-sized shops also have the advantage of reduced
overhead and increased cash-flow because their CNC tool has quickly paid
for itself. With no monthly payment to worry about, owners can undercut
their competitors and still make a handsome profit.
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