Ouch! Maybe they deserve to go out of business! ....Something like leading a horse to water. ;-)
Dave On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 11:23 -0400, Dave Cole wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
