A Few Reasons Why You Should Consider DNC
Are you still using punched tape? If so, do you have a problem with any of the following:
 | Excessive programmer and operator time spent fooling with tapes resulting in machine downtime. |
| Tape storage getting to be a problem. |
| Tape reader and tape punch maintenance is starting to be costly. |
| Paper and Mylar tape is becoming expensive to buy. |
| Misplaced tapes. |
| Running the wrong tape or wrong revision. |
| Executive tapes are becoming worn out from repeated use. |
Do you run long programs from tape?
| What happens when you need to restart a program (due to tool break etc.) from the middle of a large program? Do you end up cutting "air" instead of metal? |
What do you do when programs are larger than a reel of tape?
Other Reasons to Consider DNC
| Reduce Set-Up Time. |
| Support ISO 9000 Compliance |
| Organize your NC Program Library |
| Improve Security |
| The editors in some of our CNC controls are difficult to use. |
| It's difficult to save programs that have been edited at the CNC machine. |
| We MDI each new program that we run and that results in machine downtime. |
| We end up using MDI to reenter frequently run jobs each time we run them. |
| We have one or more older NC machines that we still use extensively. |
| Programmers are frequently interrupted by machine operators. |
| We frequently need to load executive tapes into our older machines. |
If you are beyond the tape stage, but using portable CNC MiniFile™ for DNC, do you have any of the following problems?
| The disks we use in our MiniFile keep going bad. |
| We're not happy with the support we get from our MiniFile supplier. |
| It's not possible to do any editing with the MiniFile. |
| MiniFiles are becoming expensive to buy and repair. |
| We sometimes need to run programs that are larger than a MiniFile can handle. |
| If a tool breaks during a long program it's often necessary to restart the program from the beginning and that results in hours of cutting "air". |
If you are having these problems, isn't it time to "BUST OUT OF THE BOX!"
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