Saturday 26 November 2011

Why Everyone Should Be Grateful For Every Machine Shop

By Penny T Fish


No matter where you go in any densely populated area, you will be surrounded by millions of products that were assembled using unique parts that were carefully crafted within a machine shop, a facility dedicated to the manufacturing process known as machining. You would generally find a facility like this among other manufacturing companies within an industrial park or some place of that nature, and if you were to take a tour of its interior, you would find a large room full of special machines.

Every one of these special machines are typically set up to craft a very special category of components, so they must all work together to produce all the parts needed to create a single marketable product. These machines are commonly operated by men and women called machinists that are specially trained to use the equipment they are working with to produce perfectly crafted items according to the specifications of a product engineer.

There was a time when machinists had to work hazardously close to the moving parts of the machine and control it manually, but now computer numerical control devices have been implemented to make the job safer and faster. Computer numerical control allows the operator to just key commands into a computer console so that the computer can takeover and tell the machine what to do, making things much faster and more precise.

There is no limit to what these machine shops can actually create, because they work with nearly every solid material known to man and will craft those materials into all sorts of parts that can be found in many of the things we use today. With the machines these shops use, something as simple as a long block of wood can be turned and cut away at until it becomes something like a baseball bat or something even more elaborate, and that's just the beginning.

If there were not a single machine shop around to perform this type of work, there would be absolutely no way to create some of the things they are responsible for creating, so we would be missing out on a lot of today's best products. Were it not for all the machinists and their machines, we wouldn't have the vehicles that we drive to get to work and school every day, the computers we use to communicate and discover new information, the television sets that allow us to watch movies and play games from the comfort of our own homes, or many other things.




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