Scott Shepherd
08-29-2015, 8:45 AM
I know Keith posted a link a while back showing a link to the new Trotec Speedy 360 that was coming out. Well, it's at the Philly NBM show. REALLY REALLY nice machine. I was really impressed. One thing I'll say about the factory people at Trotec. They are very studied about their approach to things. They don't appear to just throw ideas at things and "see if they work". They seem to gather a ton of information, formulate a plan, and then execute the plan. The thing that attracts me to it all is that it's not so much a "new" platform, but rather it's all built on the same concepts of the 300 and 400. It appears to take the best of both of those machines and make a new machine. There's nothing unfamiliar with it. It looks like a baby 400 :)
Josh (the Trotec application guy) took the time to take the covers off and show me the inner workings of it, and it's definitely more beefy than the 300. I like the table with the quick change modular tables, the ability to adjust the airflow rate is now there, which is awesome. I think the table weight limit is higher than the 300 because there is a monster motor for bringing the table up and down. Also, it's not officially a pass through machine, but it looked to me like you could do pass through work because of the way the panels were oriented for "cleaning" ;)
I didn't know the machine was going to be at the show, so I didn't go there looking for it, but I'm glad I saw it, it looks like it's going to be a nice machine for their lineup. I like the way they build on what has a proven track record rather than starting from scratch and having to work out all those growing pains.
If you are heading to NBM, check it out.
Josh (the Trotec application guy) took the time to take the covers off and show me the inner workings of it, and it's definitely more beefy than the 300. I like the table with the quick change modular tables, the ability to adjust the airflow rate is now there, which is awesome. I think the table weight limit is higher than the 300 because there is a monster motor for bringing the table up and down. Also, it's not officially a pass through machine, but it looked to me like you could do pass through work because of the way the panels were oriented for "cleaning" ;)
I didn't know the machine was going to be at the show, so I didn't go there looking for it, but I'm glad I saw it, it looks like it's going to be a nice machine for their lineup. I like the way they build on what has a proven track record rather than starting from scratch and having to work out all those growing pains.
If you are heading to NBM, check it out.