I have been asked to consider a Hurco vmc for our next machining center purchase. There are guys here who believe some time could be saved on the simple short run jobs by programming at the machine rather than going through the programming dept. We use mastercam.

They maybe correct I am not sure.
currently everything goes through programming and there are times they get a bit backed up.

Has anyone purchased a Hurco over other machines for that main purpose.
I here great things about their conversational programming system but never concerned myself becuase we program all our machines through mastercam
I want to be open minded about this as there is not much worse than a machinist waiting for programming!

It is the Hurco machine in general that I am a bit concerned about.
How would this machine compare to a similar size Daewoo/doosan machine
or even a fadal or haas

any imput would be very much appreciated.