Get With the Program FROM MACHINE TO CAM PROGRAMMING By Alan Richter B rent Beistel got his start in the metal-cutting profession sweeping floors and cleaning chip pans at a machine shop soon after he completed high school. However, Beistel’s knack for producing parts eventually led to him heading the shop’s lathe department. “Within a year of me taking over and setting up the lathes, I was programming all of them right at the machine,” Beistel said. Although the shop employed a programmer, Beistel wanted to learn to do it on his own. “Also, so I didn’t bug him for programs all the time. ”That scenario changed after he launched his own company, Beistel Machining Inc., Donora, Pa., and purchased his first CNC chine tool, a Doosan DNM 400 vertical machining center. Bei

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