Action Machinery now proudly represents Mazak machine tools. Mazak has long been recognized as the industry leader in CNC machining centers, lathes and multi-tasking equipment. The company manufactures it's products in 6 facilities throughout the world. Mazak's Florence, Kentucky facility currently produces over 20 models. By producing machines close to the market Mazak understands what customers need to gain a competitive edge. Combining agile manufacturing with close ties to the marketplace enables Mazak to successfully achieve goal to provide innovative, reliable products that deliver high performance at a reasonable price and on time.

Action Machinery has teamed with Mazak in Colorado to expand our product offering into metal cutting equipment. We look forward to educating the Colorado marketplace with regard to the many benefits Mazak's products and processes. Over the coming months Action Machinery will offer technical seminars covering the Mazatrol PC-Fusion conversational CNC controls, probing and Multi-tasking.

Walker Manufacturing of Fort Collins, Colorado is a leading manufacturer of lawn care equipment for commercial and residential landscaping professionals. Faced with the manufacturing challenges of rapid sales growth of existing products along with the introduction of a new product line, Walker's management team identified bending as an opportunity to improve. Working with Action Machinery, the company selected an Accurpress Advantage, 175 ton x 12' press brake with an ETS 3000 graphical controller and Wila's quick change precision ground American-style tooling system.

The Accurpress and Wila combination has greatly reduced the company's set up time while improving throughput and overall part quality. In one example a job that previously took 30-45 minutes to set up and produce a good part now takes no more than 5 minutes. This drastic reduction in set up time is a result of several factors including Wila's precision ground hydraulically clamped tooling system, a crowning die rail to eliminate shimming and the +/-0.0004 repeatability of the Accurpress press brake. The virtually unlimited memory of the ETS 3000 controller enables Walker to store all of their part programs at the machine. Mike Moore, press brake operator for Walker Manufacturing, states before the addition of the new Accurpress, bending was always a bottleneck now bending is actually ahead of our production schedule.

Walker Manufacturing investment in new bending technology has paid off so well that the company recently placed an order for a second Accurpress Advantage machine. The company is an outstanding Rocky Mountain manufacturing success story. Action Machinery, Accurpress and Wila proud to be Walker Manufacturing's press brake and tooling partners.