I am looking to buy another cat 40 horizontal mill this year.I am looking to keep a fanuc control .We have 3 shops nation wide and have a variety of machines .Makino,Mori,Enshu,Mazak. We make automotive parts and hold tight tolerances .I am looking for 2 stand alone machines and at the other shop were considering adding a new line.Enshu seems to be one of the very few builders that will make custom machines and its a turn key operation.There sales guy took me to Toyota and Gm and those custom machines are amazing .Is there anything new coming out at IMTS that anyone knows.For are stand alone machines Makino and Mori are abt the same.The Enshu runs circles around the others with cycle times (12seconds at least ).I have a GE480h 15k spindle 29.5 hp 3543IPM.We also have a few older Enshu ge60s&80s .These machines run 6 days a week 24hrs a day .We got are moneys worth out of them.I have a few friends that own other shops and they bought new makinos for a job for John Deere.They cant get the 3 machines running at the same time.Makino has been there for a month straight.There going to lose the job if they cant make parts.I cant afford this happening.Like I said I would like the new machines to be fanuc reliable and fast .As of right now I will go with a Enshu but I wasn't sure if anyone new about new machines for IMTS
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