[OBeer-WAN-Kenobi]

I know some distributors and I think some of the guys here just went down to visit the plant in Kentucky but I don't really know anyone at Mazak, sorry. My company owns 5 or 6 of them.

Physically their machines are top notch but personally, I can't stand Mazatrol and their controllers. I'd rather deal with Fanuc controls any day. Since 80% of the industry uses Fanuc compatible controls, I'd personally be looking for a job dealing with them.

Mazak is kind of like Apple. You have to use all of their proprietary software to deal with programming their controls (if you want to do it off-line) and although they "say" the new ones are compatible with G-code, they've got a ways to go in that department.