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VOL. 40 NO. 2
Dec 21/January 2022
The oldest regional industrial pub- lication serving the Western States manufacturing managers, owners and engineers from 1 employee
to those larger plants of 5,000 or more. Its editorials feature numeri- cal control applications in all size machine shops, tooling, program- ming, robotics and shop operations, training personnel, financing of new equipment, cutting tools and all related manufacturing requirements. Coverage extends to all of Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Ne- vada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
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It is Easy to Make My Day
Right before I started working on this issue I spent three days at the Long Beach Convention Center as an exhibitor at WESTEC. It felt so good to talk to people in the industry again. I saw many people that I had not seen in a few years and it was wonderful. The show itself was OK. Nothing more, nothing less. I am glad I had a booth there and most exhibitors I talked to felt the same way too. I did have a few companies ask for ad information and that made my day.
It made my day to hear 4 or 5 attendees thanking me for sending them the magazine. One gentlemen said he has received it for over 30 years and loved the articles and even like the ads too. He also mentioned that over the years he has bought 4 machines from ads in the magazine. That made my day.
I also had someone in an exhibitors booth tell me he got into the industry via an ad from George Schortz. George is mostly retired now but was well known for job placement for many years. This application engineer for a large well known distributor said he was working at a shop doing program- ming and his shop was about to close down and contacted George from his ad in CNC WEST. George told him that he did not have any programming jobs for a shop but did have something similar for a machine tool distributor. An interview was done and 20 years later he is still an engineer. While it is with a different dealer he said life is great and he has that ad in CNC WEST to thank for it. That really made my day.
Our cover story was provided to us by Verisurf. We normally don’t do that with the cover story as that is usually a Sean Buur story but it was so well written and the photo on the cover was so good, Sean Buur did not mind at all giving up his top billing. In fact he suggested it. A story that Sean did write was on Garner Products in the Sacramento area. The company does some unusual and interesting work and I think their story is one worth checking out.
Sean also went to Westec and talked with a few of the Quality/Metrology companies there since this is our theme this issue. He shares some of the things he found out from these leaders of industry in his article.
This issue marks the return of a Tim Paul column. Tim would like to write even more but it takes a lot of work and time which is what he already does in his day job at Autodesk. He normally sends me two pages but felt so strongly about the topic of his article he asked if he could send four. I am glad I said OK as Tim really hits the nail on the head about Machining Education. Read it and then re-read it. I am sure you will enjoy it. It made my day when I did.
I would like to take this time to thank all of our loyal readers and advertis- ers and wish you all a Merry Christmas (or what ever it is that you celebrate) and a Happy Happy New Year. It would make my day if you did.
Sincerely,
Shawn Arnold
Shawn Arnold Publisher
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