Fanuc factory.
I had the pleasure and opportunity to visit the Fanuc factory back in the early 80s, as part of a tour sponsored by Gomiya, they imported Nomura CNC Boring Mills, Kitako 4 spindle lathes and other Japanese CNC equipment.
Customers in those days, and remember this is quite a few years ago when the price of CNC machines was really high, got a free trip to Japan, all paid, for 10 days.
I and my wife got in because I did a lot of Fanuc training for Gomiya and had trained a lot of the customers on the trip. It was the highlight of all the years of training I did, everything was absolutely first class, nice Hotels, great but unusual foods, visits to CNC factories, including Fanuc, even a trip on the bullet train.
What I remember most is meeting the legendary Dr. Inaba, one of the founders of Fanuc, he told me proudly that everyone working there, generated $500 000.-
What was funny and a little embarrassing, he was so short that I desparately looked for a chair to sit on while I talked to him. It did not seem quite right to be that much taller than this really smart guy.
The trip was my CNC highlight and led to quite a bit of work for me, including the training and manual writing I did for Fanuc in Chicago later.
Heinz.
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