Buy VM10 or ?

[underthetire]

Hurco's - operators love them, service techs hate them. Okuma and Mori do a better job IMO with everything, including the conversational programming. I don't know Mazak. We had more Hurco's than any one else on the west coast, and 90% of all down machines in this shop are Hurcos. We now are replacing all of them with better quality machines. The Old hurco's are way more reliable than the new junk they are sending out for sure. Just another taiwan machine with a un-reliable control on it.

[Hurco1]

So how did the install go?

[Hurco1]

Oh I don't know about the service tech's hating them. I've worked on the VM1 / 10 series a couple of times since their inception and I thinkl the VM10 is so much better than the VM1 series. 80% of the problems I've worked on with the VM1 is tool changer related and about 80% of those were customer / operator induced. Low oil level and inexperienced people trying to cover up an operator induced screw up by shifting air valves that they shouldn't even be near!

Now the VM series has the same electric drive ATC like the VMX series (hence the change from VM1 to VM10 designation) so all of those problems are out the window!

For the money, it's a great little machine.

[bloke]

None of them are hard to troubleshoot. It just depends on how good you are at it.