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has significantly improved consistency in accuracy because parts are not traveling to various setups on different machines. The bulk of the shop’s parts are made from stainless steel, Inconel, ductile iron, steel and aluminum. With small lot sizes, optimum speeds and feeds must be quickly established with the first part. Determining reasonable starting points is typi- cally reliant on the experience of Choice’s machinists. “Just because the shop has such advanced levels of automa-


On the whole, automation, such as this Mazak Palletech system, is what keeps Choice competitive and able to continuously win new work.


with multiple operations, the shop always tries to run whole jobs on one pallet using four-sided tombstone fixtures. This


tion as its Palletech systems doesn’t mean there is any less of a need for skilled labor,” said Beth Rothwell. “Quite the contrary, and in fact, the automated systems require machinists with even higher skill levels. As opposed to just mastering an advanced machine tool, machinists must have a thorough understanding of the automation, processes and workflow through the system to get the most out of the machine tool and the automation.” The shop’s advanced manufacturing operations require that machinists know how to program, build fixturing to a certain extent, set up jobs, choose optimum tooling and deter-


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