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Once upon a time, lathes were big heavy machines driven by massive AC motors ... you like—you can manually operate it, or use it for CNC machining tasks instead. If you want a small lathe ...

BCG, a management consulting firm, says that Industry 4.0 will facilitate the gathering and analyzing of data across machines ... downtime and time-to-complete. Though sensors will eventually become a ...