Summary: This article explains the benets Ishida derived from the purchase of Hurco machining centers, which made it more cost- eective to move its manufacturing in-house. The machine shop personnel and managers point specically to Hurco control features that have increased their productivity—features, such as Patterns, DXF Transfer, Concurrent Programming, NC/Conversational Merge, the overall speed and usability of the WinMax platform, and Conversational Programming. UK machine shop pioneers Japanese group's in-house manufacture Article originally appeared in Packaging Europe Magazine The Japanese, family-owned Ishida group is a giant in food packaging machinery, with a worldwide turnover in excess of half a billion Euros. Perhaps surprisingly, almost all of the component parts that g

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