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Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 August 2002
Book teaches CNC maintenance
"CNC toolbox: top service for machine tools", now available in Europe, teaches readers about the technology and service of computer numerical control machines.
"CNC toolbox: top service for machine tools", now available in Europe, teaches readers about the technology and service of computer numerical control (CNC) machines This book offers a unique training method and systematic step-by-step approach to understanding all of the basic, special, and advanced service-solving techniques for CNC machines
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This easy to read book is suitable for shop floor and factory experts alike.
"CNC toolbox" presents CNC technology in a format that captures the subject of all CNC machines, not just a single system.
The author, Dan Nelson, is a CNC Product Training Engineer who specialises in application and troubleshooting classes for CNC systems.
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He shares his firsthand experience solving hundreds of onsite service calls.
The book breaks down the information into three tools: knowledge, diagnostics, and problem solving.
Part one of the book, knowledge, focuses on understanding the basic business of servicing a CNC tool.
Coverage is concentrated on those ideas that originate and recur most often in the field.
These ideas build a basis for the testing diagnostics and the problem solving tools that follow in parts two and three.
Diagnostics is the skill of collecting pertinent data to understand a machine's trouble.
knowledge and diagnostic information is distilled into a final solution using problem solving, the third tool.
Readers will benefit from this book.
They will discover how to lower their repair and operational costs by preventing the common sense problems seen in the machine tool industry.
They will also learn the steps that they need to follow to reduce equipment downtime and keep their production on track and on time.
They will understand the role programmers, operators, salesmen and other vendors play in supporting their machine tools, and they will find out how to get support, training, and key service documents from their OEMs.
In addition, readers will learn important factors to consider next time they make a machine purchase.
"CNC toolbox" includes online references, appendices, footnotes, and end-of-chapter exercises.
Readers will gain insight from literally hundreds of factory performed service jobs and they will be able to evaluate effectively their CNC repairs, even factory-based repairs using the information in this book.
"CNC toolbox: top service for machine tools" is available through American Technical Publishers for GBP 48.00.
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