Big and ugly is what we do
We do a lot of big ugly castings and other mild steel. Our main issue is the raw dimensioning. I have the luxury of some very liberal tolerances but the double edge of that is the raw has ridiculous tolerances.
I considered Toyoda since that is what we are replacing but for some reason the men up top didn't really seem that interested.
It's interesting that a You-Ji is mentioned. Before we purchased our Haas we were looking at one. Personally I thought it was a little bit better suited for our operations but at that time I was not involved in those decisions. Our only problems with it was the test we were shown was poorly planned and didn't impress our president. Plus there wasn't much clearance in the tool magazine for the length of tool we needed on the right angle head that was in there.
I can't tell my tolerances
I won't even tell anyone what my tolerances are. It would be too embarrassing. I originally thought they wanted increased production at a lower cost. This was easy to show considering we have been doing much of this on manual machines since our indexer went down for the count. The new management wanted longevity and a reasonable price. With our tolerances I wasn't too worried about repeatability unless something really went bad. Now the owner would like me to prove the higher end machines last longer. A new article in T&P magazine about Haas has the owner feeling a bit more kindly towards them and thinks they may have just gotten a bad rap at first.