Finishing parts faster with higher quality requires using the right tooling, fixturing, chucking . . .

This is "operator experience and knowledge," a valuable asset. In reality, however, much time and energy are spent compensating for thermal deformation, adjusting cutting conditions to avoid chatter, and performing trial cuts to ensure the machine doesn't crash.

Typically, in the machine shop, the skilled machinist with frontline experience is the one who effectively handles thermal deformation (machine quirks), gets the right cutting conditions, and prevents machine crashes. The foundation (machining infrastructure) for providing solutions to some of those problems, however, rightly belongs to the machine tool builder.

Providing solutions to "machining infrastructure"-based problems demands superior mechanics and electronics—at high-tech levels and in harmony with advanced IT applications. Okuma has enhanced its Machine & Control Single Source advantage by turning "theory" into real and "effective machine applications."

This is Okuma's "Intelligent Technology."