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As the machining industry becomes more competitive, we continue to search for ways to increase our productivity. One way to boost productivity is to limit a machine's idle, or noncutting time. Reducing idle time can be a tremendous cost saver.
Machine tool companies see the opportunities to improve efficiency on CNC lathes and have responded in a number of ways:
Increasing the rapid traverse rates on the axis servodrives;
Increasing the turret index speed to save production time.
There are still other potential ways to reduce idle time in certain applications....