Every slab, panel, and block that enters your shop floor has a cost. Yet, in a vast number of CNC operations, a significant portion of that material never becomes a finished part, but it becomes scrap, instead. Unusable offcuts, kerf losses between parts, positioning errors, tools removing more material than necessary: add these up across hundreds of cycles and the impact on your margins is far greater than most businesses realize. The good news is that much of this waste is not inevitable: it comes down to how you plan your operations. In this article, we look at how [...]