{"id":869,"date":"2022-03-02T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:30:24","slug":"the-dumbing-down-of-cnc-machine-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/the-dumbing-down-of-cnc-machine-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"The DUMBING DOWN of the CNC Machine Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-870 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-24x14.jpg 24w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Robot_Programmer-48x27.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many people believe that the rise of CAD\/CAM has also meant the dumbing down of the machine shop. CAD\/CAM operators do not have to be chip making machinists &#8230; the only requirement is to know how to operate the CAD\/CAM system. As result whatever method the CAD\/CAM system comes up with is the method of production. Speeds, feeds, process &#8230; it&#8217; all set by the CAD\/CAM system and your production and machining are at it&#8217;s mercy &#8230; whether right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p><b>Analogy : <\/b>Sure the pilot uses auto-pilot to fly &#8230; but the pilot also knows how to fly the plane manually if needed. Does your CAD\/CAM programmer know G code? Can he intervene if necessary?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/musings-of-an-artisan-have-manufacturers-summoned-the-demon\/\">READ the FULL ARTICLE HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>It&#8217;s time to RISE UP &#8230; time to make your shop smarter and more efficient. Time to enhance the HUMAN FACTOR &#8230; and KIPWARE\u00ae can help.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentechinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE to explore Kipware\u00ae in detail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentechinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-772\" src=\"http:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog_ad1-300x233.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog_ad1-300x233.gif 300w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog_ad1-24x19.gif 24w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog_ad1-36x28.gif 36w, https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blog_ad1-48x37.gif 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenney Skonieczny &#8211; President<br \/>\nKentech Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people believe that the rise of CAD\/CAM has also meant the dumbing down of the machine shop. CAD\/CAM operators do not have to be chip making machinists &#8230; the only requirement is to know how to operate the CAD\/CAM system. As result whatever method the CAD\/CAM system comes up with is the method of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[5,276],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kipware_blog_general_posts","category-kipware_programming_software","tag-cadcam","tag-cad-cam-overkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentechinc.com\/kipware_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}