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The potential savings in manufacturing costs attainable by CNC turning centres are often offset by unnecessarily long set-up times. This is of particular importance with the introduction of CNC turning into a company manufacturing repeated orders of small batches.
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© 1983 Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
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Knight, M.A., Spurgeon, D. (1983). Optimizing Tooling for CNC Turning. In: Davies, B.J. (eds) Proceedings of the Twenty-third International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06546-2_15
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