Having seen the demonstration I was absolutely knocked out. (I still love playing around with anything new) My boss decided to go for Fanuc although I wanted the Mazatrol. I remember that you had a choice of Fanuc or Mazatrol as a control. Just shows how old I am being able to remember when Mazaks were called Yamazakis. Weird but a lot of fun.Īnyway they made us very welcome and we bought our first Yamazaki. I’m not joking, a playing card would suddenly appear out of his pocket or some such thing. Oh and he had his own personal magician walking around with him. They had this raffle and were giving away these really expensive vases as prizes it all seemed a bit strange at the time. Well I think that was his name I know they called him Tel which we found quite funny at the time. I remember going to the Hamburg engineering Show circa 1982 with my old boss and we actually met Teramatsu Yamazaki. How do you get from pots n pans to CNC Machines? The company went from strength to strength and in the 1980s a manufacturing plant was built in Worcester in the UK.

Yamazaki was revived in the 1950s and 1960s by the founder’s sons. Like the rest of Japanese industry they were humbled by the outcome of the war. The company were part of Japan’s industrial buildup during World War II.

During the 1920’s they started making lathes. He went on to mat-making and then woodwork machines. Saddakichi Yamazaki started making pots and pans in 1919 in a place called Nagoya in Japan. CNC Training Centre offers training on all Mazak Machines this article includes Mazak programming tutorial (VFC and TPS) Mazak, How It All began

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