Zelinski: “Any product you pick up and touch, it’s not too many steps away from a machining process.”
Most of the parts in your car engine come from a CNC machine. Medical devices, your kitchen cabinets — CNC machine. Your computer case, your iPhone earbuds — well, no. But the mold that created them — CNC machine.
The growth of these machines represents the biggest change in manufacturing over the last 20 years. The people who run them are factory workers.
But they also have to be computer programmers. And they are in high demand.
Marketplace on American Public Media /National Public Radio Closed with a story on the importance of CNC machining last night.
You can access the podcast and read the full transcript at NPR CNC STORY
Bottom line : Skilled operators of CNC machine tools are in high demand.
High enough demand to make the national financial news on NPR.
Tip of the hat to Peter Zelinski at Modern Machine Shop magazine, for effectively describing and communicating the opportunity of CNC machine technology for our workforce.
Modern Machine Shop is the Flagship publication of Gardner Publications, who co-produce Production Machining Magazine with PMPA.
Photo credit Dustin Dwyer at MarketPlace