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Ghost in the Machines

From Mitsubishi EDM/Laser
 

 

ne of the foremost reasons MC Machinery Systems Inc., Wood Dale, Ill., a division of Mitsubishi Corp., maintains its EDM Museum is because its customers demand it.

More than a decade after the first Mitsubishi WEDMs were introduced into the U.S. market in 1978, the company attempted to drop them from its service and support.

"Well, that blew up in our face," said Greg Langenhorst, MC Machinery's EDM product manager who has been with Mitsubishi for more than 25 years. "We tried, and the customers came back and said, 'What do you mean? I've got five of those and they run great. You can't leave me stranded out here with an old machine and no service.'"

This led the machine builder to expand its collection of service machines--four or five of Mitsubishi's outmoded EDMs that it had kept on hand and maintained for service and support since 1981--to create the EDM Museum when the company moved into its present location in 1990. Fourteen machines are now in the museum, ranging from a 1978 DWC 100 to a HA series machine, which the company discontinued in 1994. The FX Series, which the company made from 1996 through 1999, is waiting for space in the museum.

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