The contribution of CNC lathe processing industry to the modern economic has been indispensible, they produced various industrial conformable parts and components with good function, high precision and affordable low costs; As the automation and longtime production makes low proportion of manpower costs, however more and more technicians’ gap, the competition between same professions and the next generation to continue business concerns are testing entrepreneurs investments thoughts.

In Taiwan, most CNC lathe industries are operating with less than a hundred CNC lathes, commonly operating with family and many entrepreneurs are themselves technicians, so on the premise of reducing expenditure to gain more profits, technician trainings, technics upgrade and CNC machinery renew replacements thoughts are very conservative over the industries. As the above mentioned points are significant to CNC lather industries growth, we can see that most rapid grown CNC lathe industries are with new equipment or equipment replacements and renewals, train technicians, upgrade technical capabilities and acquisitions of professional certifications, all these are
essential operating conditions.

Beside the above mentioned CNC lathe industries operating conditions, necessary consumables and spare parts like raw material, oils and lubricants, cutting tools, measuring equipment that need service and maintenance all the time, service should include different processing requirement and restraint, machining environmental influences … etc., especially for cutting tools. Tools selection are based on machining efficacy and quality, even these tools are managed by technicians but looking for special tools like systematic customized tools is tools agency responsibility due to complement each other
of tools industries chain

Taiwan CNC lathe industries are having advantage to produce a small number of diverse products beside mass production strength. Therefore CNC lathe industries need to think how to show competitiveness internationally, operating difficulties for CNC lathe industries are the same worldwide or even more critical compared to Taiwan, thus facing problems/concerns and finding countermeasures seriously, need looking with optimism on future contribution that CNC lathe industries can provided.

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