More In The Know
This shop is in the early stages of integrating Internet-based training tailored specifically to the brand of Swiss-type lathes it uses. The goal is to bring prospective employees up to speed quicker while enabling existing employees to progress to more advanced roles in the shop.

Swiss Machine Training Offered at IMTS
 MasterTask Training Systems will introduce its "Mastering CNC Swiss - Online" course at IMTS 2008 in booth A-8040. Attendees can select from Citizen, Star or Tsugami lathes as well as bar loaders from LNS, Citizen or Iemca. The course is designed to provide instructions in both basic CNC machining as well as proce

Training Course Simulates CNC Machining

Machine Tools Used As Dedicated Equipment…For A Little While
Two keys to this shop’s success are versatility and speed. It uses flexible machining centers, rather than dedicated equipment, and constantly reconfigures them into new cells for new jobs. The speed at which it can do this, in addition to in-house tombstone manufacturing capability, provides the nimbleness to quickly respond to its customers’ needs.

Training By The Numbers
A formal training program not only helped ease this firm’s transition from cam automatics to CNC lathes, but it also enabled the firm to staff a third shift in record time.

• Video: Setting Boring Bar Offset On A Swiss-Type

  This video clip from a MasterTask Training instructional course describes how to set the X-axis geometry offset for a boring bar on a Tsugami Swiss-type lathe.