On 7/17/2014 6:37 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2014-07-17 16:18 GMT-03:00 dave <dengv...@charter.net>: > >> Mazak's policy is set up to encourage you to buy new rather than >> fix. :-( >> > Indeed. A couple of years ago, I asked to mazak for the replacement for the > standar CRT monitor. They quoted me US 5000 more or less, for the entire > unit. By that time, we were using the lathe with an old CGA monitor, > because the frequency is the same. I bought an adaptation board from CGA to > VGA so now I can use any monitor. But yes, they're thiefs! >
I talked with the company that lost the controls on the two Mazak lathes and the big problem for them was operator training and the existing programs that they had stored. They could not afford the re-learning curve. So they popped for the $10K in new boards with the hope that they can eek a few more years out of the lathes. The company is not very forward thinking. If they believe they can get by for a year or two as is... they will stick with what they have until something else catches fire. They have no long term plans to replace anything which of course is only planning for disaster. Which pretty much explains their declining business. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
