Mazak Launches Assembly Operations at New Plant
The company celebrated the completion of the initial construction phase of their sixth Japanese facility with an open house event.
Posted: June 19, 2018
Yamazaki Mazak (Aichi, Japan), the parent company of Mazak Corporation (Florence, KY), has announced the start of assembly operations at their latest production facility in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The company celebrated the completion of the initial construction phase of their sixth Japanese facility and 11th worldwide with an open house event attended by customers and distributors from across Japan, and via the Mazak International Machine Tool Association (MIMTA) tour program, around the world.
While the final stage of construction is ongoing, the Inabe plant has already begun producing new Variaxis Series five-axis machining centers and Versatech Series five-axis double-column machining centers. The facility also includes significant floor space devoted to performing test cuts for customers on these large machine tools. When the $176 million facility is finished in 2019, the 603,000 sq ft production floor will take over operations from the current Seiko plant in nearby Kuwana City, which will serve as a machining facility for the new plant.
The new facility includes many features essential to the manufacture of high precision machine tools, including advanced Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) monitoring technology and environmental controls that prevent temperature changes beyond ±1ºC on the production floor. The current operations have already increased the company’s overall production capacity in Japan by 20 percent, and the company plans to prioritize the expansion of their production floor to meet high levels of worldwide machine tool demand. The Inabe plant will ultimately become a Mazak iSMART Factory™ like the company’s North American headquarters in Florence, KY.
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