Mazak Corporation

So instead of the developed in a laboratory.

We've actually partnered with one of our machine tool partners, Mazak.

And so they're going to be releasing and showcasing their version of a similar conversion system, which harks back to the fact that it's not necessarily a newer novel.

We're just taking common things that exist and putting them together in new ways or converging them, if you will.

the um uh you know the setup uh the the stuff that we know 3d printing has to do is like the finishing and all this de-stressing and a lot of stuff and we're going to rely on the stuff we're really good at which is tool exchanging and exchanging and all this high level uptime stuff so it's interesting that the that i know i would have you know i think it's great that you guys did this but i would have expected mazak and or or all these other guys to to do this kind of stuff maybe by themselves already right

yeah and it's it's things they've worked on like you said you know that Machine tool companies getting into additive and building the hybrid machines is not necessarily new or novel.

I would say the big thing that we've helped them co-develop and I'm going to say we gently nudge them into is on this specific system, Mazak's going to have their very first CNC-based WAM-only machine.

They call it their EZ-WAM.

Wow.

The joke is, or the concern is, why does Haas have so many available technicians? But better, whether it's a DMG Mori or what I found out with Mazak, they're kind of shrinking or pulling out of California.

Wow, that could be a long time.

I had a company that used to make turn parts for us.

Go check what some other company does.

Check like Mazak or someone.

Okay.

See what their ratios are on a similar machine, or like Okuma or something.

Other than showing some of the machines that he shills, there was not a single connection to him in that video.

So looking at this, it looks like all brands have, like some of them, they have options that are like really wide and options that are like really narrow.

Like Mazak has one that's a 10 horsepower continuous and 25 horsepower short-term, but they also have a high torque variant that's 25 horsepower continuous and 30 horsepower short-term.

So like they have one with a wide spread and one with a narrow spread.

That's the vertical milling machine.

We have a, a horizontal Mazak machine.

We get, uh, a good quality with Mazak, uh, uh, brand.

That is, uh, Japan made.

Is one of the most well-known, uh, company in the market for big CNC machine.

I mean, it's from CNCs to robots to the 3D printing to scanning.

I mean, you name it, you know, the big guys, Haas, Mazak, Fukuda.

I mean, they're all there, you know, and what we're talking about, some of these guys, they have an entire hall just for some of, you know, for their products and whatnot.

I remember not last year, but the year before, you know, Gene from Haas, he was there.

You can program, uh, and have the interfaces to the other systems.

But for instance, let's say we have, uh, something that we could do natively in a Siemens controller, we might have to have an edge device on a Mazak or something else.

So you can do it-

What's a edge device?

I thought it was a brilliant way to scale and get that tribal knowledge and people that have been doing this for 10 years.

They've been doing this, whatever Mazak machine or whatever you use, uh, for, for, for a decade.

And I think that's a, just a really, really great, uh, smart move.

move.Yeah, it was an overnight fast-forward on our capacity.

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so I think it's, it's, uh, uh, it's interesting to just focus on the machines, focus on the software, optimization of your builds, nesting, that kind of stuff.

And now to think of, like, okay, should we go to Mazak with the pallet changing thing, or should we go with someone else? Or, you know, that, that kind of thing, I think, and then later on even maybe even look at, like, okay, can we get some, you know, overhead crane thing to, to take all the builds and, and do all our powder and all that stuff.

So I think, I think that's-