Practical insights on CNC, digital manufacturing, education, and workforce development – written for makers, educators, and decision-makers navigating what’s next.
When A Small Shop Is Ready For PRODUCTION
When a Shop Is Ready for PRODUCTION. There’s a point in nearly every growing shop where something subtle changes. The work is coming in.Customers are happy.Projects are getting larger, more complex, and more frequent. Yet somehow, the days feel shorter,
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January 23, 2026
When a “Small CNC” Is Actually the Right Choice
If you search for a small CNC machine, you’ll find no shortage of advice pointing you in one of two directions. Either: Buy the smallest, cheapest machine you can to “get started,” or Skip small altogether and “buy once, invest
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January 17, 2026
Why Most CNC Owners Feel Stuck After Their First Purchase
The “most expensive tool that you use the least” You didn’t buy a CNC machine to let it collect dust. You invested thousands of dollars of your hard-earned money into a single tool because you believed it would expand what
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December 26, 2025
The Next Step In Your CNC Journey
→ Why More Makers, Educators + Small Shops Are Rethinking Their CNC Setup If you’ve been around CNC long enough, you already know this:Your first CNC machine is rarely your last. Whether you started with a hobby kit, a built-it-yourself
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December 9, 2025
[EM]POWERING THE NORTH: Building a Skilled Workforce Through Digital Manufacturing Education
Empowering the North Canada is on the cusp of one of the biggest industrial shifts that we have ever seen. Massive projects across Northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, including the Ring of Fire and new critical mineral
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November 5, 2025
[EM]POWERING URBAN AMERICA: Bringing Digital Manufacturing Education to the Next Generation
A Quiet Crisis Across urban America, a quiet crisis is unfolding – one that has little to do with technology, and everything to do with access. In cities like Detroit, Chicago, New York, L.A., Miami, Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Houston, and
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November 4, 2025
From Classroom to Career: How CAD + CNC Translates to the Workforce
Do We Just Talk A Big Game? We talk a lot about using CAD and CNC in the classroom to teach hireable skills, but is that just a cleaver marketing strategy, or can we back up that claim? Where do
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October 29, 2025
Ontario’s New Tech-Ed Requirement
Ontario’s New Graduation Requirement Spurs Innovation in Technology Education In 2023, the Ontario Ministry of Education announced a major shift in secondary education: beginning in fall semester of September 2024, all students are required to complete at least one credit
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October 22, 2025
So, How Did The Kid Get Here?
From Design Nerd to CNC Advocate If you had told my Grade 9 woodshop teacher that one day I’d be part of a company that builds CNC machines, he would have probably laughed. Back then, I wasn’t exactly what you’d
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October 15, 2025
What is CSA, and why does it matter?
Why CSA Certification Matters for CNC Machines (and Why Educators Should Care) When we build CNC machines for classrooms and workshops, safety isn’t an afterthought, it’s at the core of what we do. That’s why every Simply Technologies machine that
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September 30, 2025
Is A.I. Taking Over Digital Manufacturing? 🤖
The world of manufacturing is evolving – and education must evolve with it. At Simply Technologies, we work with schools, colleges, and universities to equip students with the tools that may not only define THEIR future, but the future of
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September 15, 2025
The CNC Feature I Almost Overlooked
I’ll be honest, when I first came across rotary axis attachments for CNC machines, I did not “get” it. It actually bothered me that we offered them as an add-on with Axiom Precision machines. I felt like it was a
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September 2, 2025