Electric drive in machine shops

To increase production and to decrease cost are two important questions continually before the manufacturer. Since labor is the greatest cost of production, then, where machine tools are a considerable factor in the production, maximum output from the tool is a necessity. Tools that are limited in production because of a lack of power at the tool are a source of expense to the manufacturer. Power cost is low while labor cost is high. The well designed motor-driven machine of today shows the motor as one of the main elements of the tool, it having short-circuited much of the old mechanical drive, and not as a mere adjunct to the tool. Too little thought is given in many cases to the possibilities of the electric drive for machine tools.