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Subject:Re: Not going to Chicago Huh? From:Jay Maechtlen <jmaechtlen -at- amada -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:57:20 -0700
Hi, Jim
your equipment is in a lot of the same shops ours is!
- how many of your equipment is in machines running (or moving to) CNCs with
Windows, or at least a Windows front end?
Here at Amada most of our machines run Fanuc CNCs, but - it's changing !
(help...)
regards
Jay
Jim Madden wrote:
> Okay, I've been lurking here for some time now. The main reason I
> haven't posted anything is because I haven't had much to offer. I like
> reading the posts and following some of the threads, but the discussions
> center around software based work and that's not what we do. We are a hard
> copy manual kind of company. We sell a durable goods product, and our users
> are usually on a shop floor somewhere. The only computer most of them have
> access to is the CNC running their machine. I see Andrew's point, but the
> flip side is that what is offered at the STC conference is what I need.
> There would be no benefit for me to go to the technical workshops, at least
> not at this point in time. Does anyone here know of a forum that is more in
> line with the kind of writing I'm doing? I would benefit the most from
> discussions centering around tools such as Illustrator, Quark, PhotoShop.
>
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