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title: CNC Machining Blog | Hurco CNC Machine Tools | autobend
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# CNC Machining Blog - Tips and Tricks for Machinists

Welcome to the Hurco CNC machine tool blog. Subscribe for weekly posts on high-speed and 5-axis machining, workholding, the latest control technologies, plus Hurco tips-and-tricks…just to name a few.

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## Posts about autobend:

[Mr. Roch](https://blog.hurco.com/topic/mr-roch) [history of Hurco](https://blog.hurco.com/topic/history-of-hurco) [autobend](https://blog.hurco.com/topic/autobend) [control technology](https://blog.hurco.com/topic/control-technology)

Last week, I posted [Part 1 of our History of Hurco video series](https://blog.hurco.com/blog/bid/344708/Happy-Birthday-Hurco-45-years), where we learned about all of the events—good and bad—that led Mr. Roch to start a business with his boss at the time, Ed Humston. Mr. Roch ended up working in sales for Ed Humston who owned E.L. Humston Company when he quit his job as an industrial engineer at EMPCO in protest of the company president’s, who he believed was making a number of missteps—and his father owned 30 percent of the company, which made the situation even more awkward.

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