Our company is moving into the 21st Century finally. We are replacing our 22-year-old 8 machine MAZAK FMS system with a brand new one. We have been hand-writing EIA programs for the past 22 years and we also program in Mazatrol. We are in the process of updating to a CAD-CAM system and have looked at a few so far. ESPRIT, MasterCam and the Mazak MatrixCam system. We are also going to look at MazaCam, Griffo Bros., DelCam PartMaker, and InventorCam. Nobody here is familiar or has used CAD-CAM in any practical way. I was trained in school on ESPRIT (which I liked) and Gibbs (which I did not) and that is the extent of any expertise at this shop. My question is, if we got a Mazak based CAD-CAM system such as MazaCam, would we need an ESPRIT or MasterCam? The Mazak rep we saw used both MasterCam and the MatrixCam systems. The choices are almost overwhelming, does anybody have any suggestions on which way to go?