Hi all,
I am a guy interested in the art and science of machining.
For those of you, who are not familiar of this topic, it is a
manufacturing process,which converts rawmaterial into
a finished product by removing unwanted material, more
like the art of sculpting. To put in the simplest of terms,
it is like cutting your apple. The only difference is instead
of apple, we have metal, and instead of a steel knife, we
have a much harder and tougher knife.
I am writing this blog to get to know people who are also
searching an answer for the question that I have.
" What is the future of machining?"
The first question that will come to anyone's mind will be
what is the need to put in so much of thought now?
I am asking this question when the world is experiencing one
of the worst economic crisis the world has ever seen. It is
said that everypart of a thing that we use in our day to day
life, has been influenced by machinining process in the course
of it's manufacturing. Either directly or indirectly.
Today we have the idea of electric drive vehicles, drive by wire
systems and many advanced hybrid vehicle concepts. My question
is what will happen to the practice of machining. I am sure that
it will be absurd that machining will vanish from the face of earth.
But I also strongly believe that machining will not be able to have it's
share of the global manufacturing economic pie as before and hence
the global economy will undergo a complete sea change.
In the due course, I will add many articles that I had come across.
I asked this question to a professor who had involved himself in the
art and science of machining, hailing from Aachen, Germany and he
had aptly put it this way.
"I think metal cutting will not disappear from production. May be that the amount of chips will drop, but the application of cutting
will become more sophisticated"
I call upon all those engineers, machinists who are fond of machining and who
are interested in the future of machining to come up with their views on this
topic.
