Industry news
What the shop floor noticed — past issues
A weekly reading list from the Eternal CNC Strategic Advisory Group — only items that change what a buyer of CNC parts should do this quarter. Every issue carries a "what it means for your parts" line.
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What the shop floor noticed — end of October
Humanoid robots turn out to be 400 models at about a hundred units each, AI cuts drawing-to-routing to minutes, one liquid-cooling supplier has booked RMB 49 million, machine tools run full, and in September robots slowed while cutting machines sped up.
Read Issue 06 →
What the shop floor noticed — late October
An AI agent cluster cuts changeover to 12 minutes, robot parts move from skeleton to tendon, liquid cooling shifts from order book to delivery, and a RMB 1.6 trillion machine-tool industry earns 3.7%.
Read Issue 05 →
What the shop floor noticed — October 2026
CIIF opens with embodied AI moving onto the line, AI inspection goes to 100%, the roller-screw nut becomes the real bottleneck, and the liquid-cooling standard gets a date.
Read Issue 04 →
What the shop floor noticed — late September
Planetary roller screws enter mass production, liquid-cooling orders booked into 2027, cutting-tool exports up 23% while machines lag, and reducers reach ten-thousand-unit monthly delivery.
Read Issue 03 →
What the shop floor noticed — mid-September
Industrial robots up 34.6% while reducers lag, UBTECH’s 10,000-unit plant, China’s first liquid-cooling national standard, and mass-production orders already landing at the component layer.
Read Issue 02 →
What the shop floor noticed — early September
Humanoid robotics crosses into production, AI-server liquid cooling becomes standard, and the machine-tool industry doubles its profit — what each means for the parts you send.
Read Issue 01 →
Next issue
2 November 2026
Storylines we are following: September industrial-robot and machine-tool output from the National Bureau of Statistics; whether UBTECH's joint venture in Fujian turns into real purchase orders; and whether the rest of the liquid-cooling supply chain can keep pace with the module makers now shipping in volume.
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