Flash Gordon
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2004
- Location
- Chicago, IL
I do some engineering consulting work for a company that recently purchased a Nakamura-Tome WT-300, seven axis twin spindle turning center. The machine purchase included a limited amount of programming support which has been mostly used up. The company will soon be in a bind when it needs to program new jobs on that machine. Their regular programmer is great with mills and lathes, but doesn't have time to learn the new machine. I am considering learning to program the machine myself. Does the manufacturer offer any intensive training programs? I've tried their web-site but haven't had any luck. I'd also like to know if this is realistic for me to try to learn. I'm not a programmer, but I have taken trade school programming classes and can read and understand both lathe and mill programs. My goal would be to spend maybe a week of intensive training. I would be paying for this out of my own pocket and know it could be expensive. I'm not interested in night classes at community college, been there-done that already. What do you think? Is this type of training available and is this a realistic idea?