Precision, efficiency, and productivity – these are the cornerstones of modern machining.
But what happens when your production hits a space limit?
Many manufacturers face exactly this challenge: order volumes are increasing, part variety is growing – but floor space remains tight. And fitting new machines into the shop floor is no longer that simple.
In high-mix, low-volume environments, this bottleneck quickly impacts daily operations. Longer paths, less efficient processes, and...

Five Strong Partners – One Common Goal Automation Day at Halter CNC Automation
Production bottlenecks, unclear workflows, or time lost on manual processes – none of that has to be the norm. On June 4 in Issum, the free Automation Day will focus on one key question: How can manufacturers get more out of their existing machines, processes, and capacity?
Five experienced partners – Schunk, Fanuc, LNS Europe, Halter CNC Automation, and Fastems – are teaming up to share prac...

How can a mid-sized manufacturer keep a single CNC machine running for over 7,000 hours per year – despite small batch sizes and high flexibility requirements? Cutmetall shows how smart automation with Fastems’ FPT-1000 boosts both productivity and investment security.
What looks like a typical automation project at first glance turns out to be a well-thought-out productivity strategy: with the compact FPT-1000 pallet system from Fastems, Cutmetall not only automated one CNC machine...

Fastems at Okuma Open House 2025 – Experience Automation Live!
Join us from February 11 to 13, 2025, at the Okuma Open House in Krefeld! We’re bringing something special: our FPT-1000 single-machine automation, live in action. Compact, powerful, and easy to integrate – this could be the solution you’ve been looking for!
Why the FPT-1000?
Designed specifically for 4- and 5-axis machine tools, the FPT-1000 boosts efficiency, flexibility, and future-proofing in your produ...

A playful workpiece consisting of several milled parts, some of which place special demands on the clamping.
Have fun recreating - and playing with it!
Best wishes from the CNC4you team!

Practical tips in a nutshell!
Don't feel like rummaging through operating instructions, no time for long video tutorials?
The new series "SINUMERIK live - Did you know?" offers short video clips that explain individual CNC topics in a very compact way.
Here are the first two videos in the new series:
Did you know? DXF import made easy!
Did you know? Easy way to add missing dimensions!
Have fun with the "whow!" effect!
 
Best regards!
The CNC4you team
 

In the CNC world, kinematic transformations translate the rectangular workpiece coordinate system into the machine coordinate system - even if this is complex and not rectangular.
This means that you can always work with the workpiece coordinates from the drawing - regardless of how the machine implements the machining operation.
Kinematic transformations are therefore important helpers in the background. It is good to know how they "tick".
In the CNC4you portal you will find the appropriate...

How can the software solutions from the Digital Shop Floor at HEIDENHAIN support your shop floor? What are the benefits of machine data acquisition? And will you retain mastery over your data when your production processes are digitalized?
At AMB in Stuttgart you will find answers to your questions. In numerous demonstrations, the digitalization experts from HEIDENHAIN will present StateMonitor and PlantMonitor, two of our software solutions. Our experts will be glad to answer your questions pe...

Level 3 – Increase flexibility and lights-out time with shared tools
Difficult to cut materials, a high number of cutting tools or machines, expensive tools, short tool lives – if you recognize any of these in your machine shop, you might want to learn about how tool automation could improve your business. Our previous cutting tool post touched on improving quality and reducing scrap by integrating a tool presetter with the production control system. In this post we go into tool aut...

Level 2 - no scrap or spindle crashes due to wrong tool offsets
“T6345; 51.003mm; 23.475mm; 27.634mm; 24.30min”. A Post-it note reminds the machine shop operator which cutting tool offsets to put into the machine tool. The operator does this typically tens of times per day. After every use, each cutting tool needs to be remeasured and if a mistake has been made, wrong tool offsets can cause either scrap parts or in the worst case, a spindle crash.Luckily, mistakes happen rarely, rig...