GE Fanuc Automation North America Inc., Charlottesville, Va., has couple new ways for users to master better productivity out of their CNC machine tools. The first, a Ladder Edit Package (LEP) impediments users establish a CNC/machine tool interface from a PC linked to the CNC via high-speed serial bus. The other advancement is an OpenFactory Bolt-On software and hardware package that gives open-CNC functionality to formerly non-open CNC LEP a Windows-based software tool, allows machine tool builders and users to monitor and edit ladder programs and insert and erase relay contacts ...