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Machining OpinionsShop classI read your September editorial ("Manufacturing Matters," pg 9). I have been doing what you suggested for several years. I have three boys, and for each one I offered their teachers a tour of the machine shop. I asked the teachers for a list of their students, then made some aluminum blanks, and had them red-anodized. When the class arrived, we gave them a tour, took them to the programming station, programmed a name plate, sent it to our Mori-Seiki, then did the engraving. Needless to say, their eyes popped out. We then gave them all name plates that we had previously run. It was a lot of fun and didn't cost all that much. Greg Gludt, Owner Santa Cruz Precision Santa Cruz, CA via e-mail Cyberage pioneerI have been in manufacturing for 35-plus years, mostly in manufacturing engineering. You are right-on with your feature article on the use of the Internet ("The Net result: Being connected," January 1997, pg 128). Nothing is changing the way people communicate and do business more profoundly than the personal computer and the Internet. I offer myself as an example. I'm 55 years old, with a wife and a 7-year-old son. We have grown children who are on-line. Our major Christmas gift to the family last year was a $4000 investment in a computer and copier-scanner-printer. With an additional line into the house, we are wired to the cyberage. Now we arm-wrestle over who is next on it. I can see the day (three years) when we will have a second or third computer in the house--all connected to our own LAN and the Internet. Lou Streck Technical Specialist Global Procunement The Stanley Works O'Fallon, MO via e-mail Machining Opinions welcomes your comments, ideas, opinions, and challenges. Write to us at: Metlfax, 29100 Aurora Rd, Suite 200, Solon, OH 44139. Fax us at: 440-248-0187. Or e-mail us at: jmckenna @metlfax.com.
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