In the age of increased automation, some of the hardest jobs have been taken up by machines. Results: convenience, better human resources utilization and increased productivity.

The Modular Drive Programmable Shape Machine is a case in point here. It is one of the only few product in the industry that allows the user to configure one machine for various automated applications, now and in the future.

The Modular Drive Programmable Shape Machine is an easy to use 2-axis machine which you can program to run any contour or pattern for both welding or cutting applications. A handheld terminal supplied with the machine is used to program the required shape and operation sequence. Other functions besides moves can be programmed, such as repeats, starts, stops, delays, and rapid traverse. Twenty programs can be stored in machine memory at any one time. Read the rest of this article »

Let me start this post with one old personal observation. I remember the time when newspapers were composed manually. An army of composers used to sit in lines and put the words together for us to read with morning cup of tea. That was old time. Now things have changed. Now when I go to newsroom, I see few people sitting on computers who quickly type and the print is off the stone in a jiffy. Technologies have taken over jobs done by human hands. Read the rest of this article »