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Right--I support a fair number of machine shops and they're all moving to CNC (although they're using a lot manual machines still). 5 axis is nice and there's a surprising amount of manual tooling changes.

We had a problem where one of the integral cooling loops had a tube come off and it sprayed the better part of a 50 gallon drum of coolant all over the shop before someone got over and hit the e-stop.




That sounds correct. Unless you have a sensor, there's no way to make a meaningful detection and decision to stop something.

And sensors that are reliable and durable cost $$$$.




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