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VOL. XXXVIII NO.6
August/September 2020
The oldest regional industrial publica- tion serving the Western States man- ufacturing managers, owners and engineers from 1 employee to those larger plants of 5,000 or more. Its editorials feature numerical control applications in all size machine shops, tooling, programming, robot- ics and shop operations, training personnel, financing of new equip- ment, cutting tools and all related manufacturing requirements. Coverage extends to all of Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
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The Show Must Go On
I must admit that I love trade shows. Some people in the industry dread working them but they light a fire under me. I have been in this business since 1980 and as you can imagine I have made some good friendships along the way. These tradeshows enable me to see many of these people I don’t visit with often. Also it has been a great way to meet new potential advertisers and or clients. So as you can imagine, I was pretty bummed when I heard that they canceled IMTS. Not as bummed as the people at AMT who put on the show and who spent two years planning it and selling it and promoting it but bummed none the less.
Lets face it though, If 2020 was a sundae, IMTS being canceled was just the moldy cherry on top.
The next machine tool trade show up for CNC WEST will be the North- west Machine Tool show held every other year in Portland in April or May. Fingers crossed that we will be further along in our fight against Covid and will be able to hold an event with thousands of people. Not only do I hope this for selfish reasons I mentioned above but trade shows are a valuable way for companies to sell machine tools and machine tool accessories and for potential customers to see them in action or at least gather information.
Another way to garner information about machine tools is via trade magazines like CNC WEST. There are certainly many in the industry and all have their strengths. Our strength is our western region articles that makes our readers feel like they have something in common with the shop that they are reading about. Heck they might even know them.
This issue of CNC WEST has a wide array of articles on western region shops. Two of our stories including our cover story come from differ- ent wine regions in California. The stories explain that more is being made in these regions other than a cabernet or chardonnay. Our cover story shop has really increased productivity with a robot on their EDM. It allows them to run the machines round the clock. As you can imagine, production was greatly increased.
Another story is about a Woodland, Washington company that upgraded to a FMS system and are incredibly happy with the results so far. There is also a story about a shop in Montana that has found that Esprit software is the perfect match for their line up of Mazak machines. The article about the Best Little Machine Shop in Texas is said tongue in cheek as they have 600 employees and do parts for Bell Helicopters among others. Our story on page 20 was from a company that sent us a few paragraphs and photos after we offered to do this for FREE to western region shops to help them through this tough time. This offer STILL stands. Contact us for more information.
Thanks for reading this issue and no matter how hard it gets, remember the show must go on
Sincerely,
Shawn Arnold
Shawn Arnold Publisher
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