Assertion: indexing | /r/HasProperty | obsolete
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: in commercial manufacturing
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Although indexing heads of the pre-CNC era are now mostly obsolete in commercial manufacturing, the principle of purely mechanical indexing is still a vital part of current technology, in concert with IT, even as it has been extended to newer uses, such as the indexing of CNC milling machine toolholders or of indexable cutter inserts, whose precisely controlled size and shape allows them to be rotated or replaced quickly and easily without changing overall tool geometry.