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From 1975 thru 1995 I was a CNC Manufacturing Engineer at a Tier 1 machine shop in suburban Detroit. We machined several flywheels and various smaller parts, all cast iron, for the big engines, like on big trucks, ships, etc. We had almost all of the parts on the Series 60 Engine. I processed all of the turning department. My duties included writing out the NC Program in long-hand, in absolute, processing the operations, procuring tooling, setting up the lathes and proving out the program. Then it was training operators to run the parts and moving on to next part. About once a month I would have to go to Detroit to meet with the Diesel engineers and go over current part production and upcoming new ones to begin quoting on to the next project which could be another DD part, a Ford part, a GM part, or a Chrysler part -we were pretty diversified. Now retired, I remember those days well but don't miss them either.
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