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VOL. 40 NO. 1
Oct/November 2021
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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Shawn Arnold
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40 Years is Kind of a Big Deal
My father Tom Arnold had a grand illusion 42 years ago. The only regional metalworking publications in circulation were not quite up to the standards of the national magazines. And this is not a slight on those maga- zines as he published and owned one called Machine Tools West. These publications were printed mostly on newsprint and were more focused on ads than content. He wanted a magazine chalk full of articles and in addition to regional ads to get some national advertisers.
It was a grand plan that had as much of a chance to succeed as to blow up in his face. He felt that shops in the west did things a little differently than mid- west and east coast shops as they worked on different applications. He wanted to share those success stories of western region shops to a western region readership.
Our first issue in October, 1981 was 64 pages and we have not been less than that in the past 40 years. Seems like his strategy worked. My hope is that when we reach our 50 year anniversary I can say the same thing. I have been with the magazine since it’s inception and I can say it has been a privilege and an honor to bring this magazine to our loyal readers over the years. And for all of those that have stopped reading print I know many people enjoy each magazine online at www.cnc-west.com.
This issue is our biggest in a couple of years. The size of the magazine depends on advertising and more and more advertisers see the benefit of having their message in front of our readers. Without our readers and our advertisers there would not be a CNC WEST so as much as I want to pat myself on the back I understand with them there would not be a CNC WEST. Now on to this issue.
This is our WESTEC issue along with Tooling & Workholding. We have lots of press releases about companies that will be in the show that is happening in Long Beach in mid -November. Sean Buur worked his magic on quite a few shops this issue. He visited the Sacramento area and visited six shops and crammed them all into one story. The story revolves around the Sacramento Valley Manufacturing Alliance. This is a group that has decided to pool their resources and knowledge to make all of them better and an excellent workforce development plan. Another story by Sean is on a shop in Anaheim that specializes in hard to machine, tight tolerance, high complexity parts for aerospace, automation, automotive, avionics, electron- ics, and medical devices.
There are some excellent supplied stories by BIG Kaiser, Allied Machine & Engineering and CG Tech. While the first two are tech articles, the last one is on a college in Oregon that still was able to teach CNC machine pro- gramming in a Zoom session during Covid. They did not think programming could be taught via Zoom but VERICUT allowed them to do exactly that.
There is much much more in this issue and I hope you can take the time to read this issue. And for those of you who have been doing so for 40 years I salute you.
Sincerely,
Shawn Arnold
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