Mention multitasking and most likely the vision of a lathe with live tooling comes to mind. It is this live tooling that lets these machines turn, mill, bore, drill, and tap parts. But is that really ...

On a field trip to Southwest China's Sichuan province 14 years ago, Liu Ping, a tool operator of a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine, got a chance to see the local military products.