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CNC WEST December/January 2020 www.CNC-West.com 3 Feature Stories New ZEISS Reverse Engineering Software. ..........................20 Decades of Quality on the Front Range A Colorado shop uses top notch equipment to climb to the top.................................................................................. 22 Job Ready on Day One Cal Poly Pomona works hard to get students ready for the workforce ............................................................................. 32 Q Plus Shows How Far Measurement has Come Orange County based metrology service company.............. 42 Live Tooling Basics A brief introduction to the basics of live tooling, its concepts and recent developments . ..................................................... 50 Five Ways Technology Helps Manufacturers.........................54 CAD/CAM/CNC Tim Paul is back and answers a very important question........ 58 Mazak DISCOVER 2019 Draws Thousands of Attendees. ..60 CNC West December 2019/January 2020 • Volume XXXVIII No 2 Departments Ronda and Todd Peterson have thrived for 30 years depending on top notch equipment like DMG MORI and LK Metrology.............. Page 22 4 Publisher Editorial 8 Executive Hotline 62 Industry News 72 New Products The Cal Poly Pomona Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Depart- ment is doing it’s part to train for the workforce........................... Page 34 Lola and Mike Knicker are the own- ers of Q-PLUS Labs in Irvine, CA. Mike founded the company almost 33 years ago and they have been a team ever since.................................. Pg.42 Coming in Febr uar y / March 2020 This issue will look at the aerospace and defense industries. These two industries are vital to the west coast, especially the Pacific Northwest and southern California. We will have ar- ticles on shops that specialize in these two industries and the machines and methods that make them successful. Editorial: Jan 18, 2020 Ad Space: Jan 22, 2020 Ad Material: Feb 1, 2020