They said look you're going to save $11,000. I remember saying, I'd rather pay $14,000 for a 31I and peace of mind. Like all new machine customers, the reason to buy is a production requirement. The only way to fulfill is to drop in a solution that rapidly functions to fulfill capacity issues. 8 months isn't rapid. And the machine isn't able to operate to purchased and expressed capacity.
The crazy thing is that somewhere in a room, intelligent people liked this as a solution.
I called the Fanuc regional manager, got voicemail and walked out on the floor. The $264,000 machine is washing the window- stalled on m35. M135. Green light doing nothing but running 50% recommended duty cycle live spindles in the air because it doesn't want to read two lines of code at the same time consistently.
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