Author Archives: Fine Line Automation

Implementing Lean – First Steps, Learning to see waste

The big question that we faced when starting lean was where the hell to start? I personally tend to complicate things. A lot of people insist you start with kaizen events, implement a pull system, and creating a Value Stream Map for your processes. That sounds ultra fancy and good, but for us it wasn’t the […]

SolidWorks/HSMWorks: How to Setup Adpative Clearing on Edge Features

Case: We have some edge features and need to profile just them. In this example, we are using the slots on our High Z Plate. Note that normally we would use a contour feature for slots like these and this is just to illustrate the setup. Steps to setup adaptive clearing: Setup your job in […]

New Things This Week

New Content and Product Information DXF, PDF, and SolidWorks files for our Z-Axis Plate – Front Mount. They are downloadable here. Discontinued Products We have discontinued our Cable Chain End Pieces product. The new preferred method of attaching our cable chain to use our new Cable Chain Trays New Products We are now selling our Cable […]