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Top: Business: Industrial_Goods_and_Services: Machinery_and_Tools: Cutting_and_Machining: Machine_Tools

This category is focused on equipment used to machine components in a variety of ways. These include drilling, tapping, milling, turning, deburring, buffing, and polishing. Although the terminology varies -- and sometimes rather inconsistently -- there is a widespread habit of placing all the equipment under a generic heading of "Machine Tools." This nomenclature helps, in turn, to differentiate guillotines and saws that simply cut material ahead of the machining processes -- and are allocated to the Cutting Machinery category.

Distributors

This category contains sites of Machine Tool Distributors. The information is focused entirely on machining equipment, with several sister categories being used as assembly points for sites of a service nature.

Manufacturers

This category contains sites put together by manufacturers of Machine Tools. The information is focused entirely on the equipment and its uses, with a number of sister categories being used to assemble sites of a service nature.

Programming and Training

This category contains sites of companies specializing in the provision of training and supply of software. The general focus is on CNC equipment, although instruction courses in conventional machine tool subjects are also available.

Note: Some additional sources of background information are listed in the Resources_and_Information sub-category, which implies a self-directed study of such information as opposed to participation in training courses and/or involvement in their design and delivery.

Reconditioning and Repair

Please submit only website url's that are verifiably demonstative of companies who repair or recondition CNC systems in an electronic context.
This category contains sites concerned with the reconditioning, rebuilding, repair, and repair of machine tools.

Resources and Information

The sites in this category provide directory and overview information regarding the metalworking industry. In most cases it is made up of searchable databases and links to specific websites.

Note: Additional sources of information are contained in the Programming_and_Training subcategory, but these sites are specifically focused on the development and supply of software and the availability and delivery of training.

Used

The focus of this category is on companies that buy and sell used and surplus machine tools, metal fabricating machinery, and, here and there, other industrial processing equipment. In most cases, sites incorporate searchable databases of currently available items.

Note: Companies that act more as brokers and concentrate, at least somewhat, on auctions to dispose of equipment are -- and should be -- found in the Auctions_and_Internet_Trading category.

Additional note: New equipment manufacturers and distributors often take in trades and accordingly offer a selection of pre-owned items, usually -- but not necessarily exclusively -- of their own brands. Their sites are to be found in the Machine_Tools Manufacturers and Distributors categories.


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