Pre set tooling and automatic control

Episode number 3 of Series “Approaching Automation”. Adapted metal cutting machines can greatly improve quality control, reduce scrap, decrease operator fatigue, and generally allow labour to be used more efficiently. Dealing with the use of a capstan lathe it is proposed that a job should be able to be rest before t becomes necessary. Problems of suing hie method are discussed and types pf controls available for particular jobs including fluid logic and pneumatic circuitry.