Mazatrol Training in Indiana: Michigan-Based, On-Site by Arrangement

Two clarifications belong at the top of this page, because Indiana shops deserve both. First: Added Performance Machining is based in Linden, Michigan. I'm not local to Indiana — what I offer Indiana shops is multi-day, on-site Mazatrol training by arrangement, the same work I do at home, with a longer drive in front of it. Second, because the names are close enough to confuse: this is Added Performance Machining of Linden, Michigan. There's a different company called Added Precision Machining operating in Indiana; we're not affiliated, and if they're who you're looking for, this isn't their site.

I'm Tom Herzog. I spent 19 years at Mazak Corporation as an Applications Engineer and have worked independently through APM ever since. The reason an Indiana shop would consider a Michigan trainer is the same reason Michigan shops call: the standard Mazatrol training routes fit a narrower situation every year. Factory courses are built around current controls and recent machine purchases. Dealer courses teach in a classroom, on simulators. And a large share of the Mazak lathes actually working in Indiana — T-Plus, T-32, Fusion 640, and Matrix machines, many of them bought used — fall outside what either route is set up to serve.

How an Indiana engagement works

On-site training means the travel happens once, by me, instead of repeatedly by your people. I come to your floor for a block of days — two to five is typical — and everything happens on your machine, your control, your tooling, and your parts. Your operators stay home, your production keeps its place in the schedule, and when the engagement ends, the knowledge is in your building instead of in one employee's travel notes.

The Fort Wayne corridor is a straightforward trip from Linden. Indianapolis-area work is a longer haul and is exactly the kind of thing worth a phone call to arrange — multi-day engagements justify the drive in a way a single day wouldn't, and scheduling a block in advance makes it simple. I won't promise you a radius on a web page; I'd rather talk about your situation and give you a straight answer.

It's fair to ask why this page exists at all if I'm not Indiana-based. Because Indiana shops keep landing in the same search Michigan shops do, and the honest answer to "who teaches Mazatrol on older controls, at our shop, on our parts" is a short list that geography doesn't change much. Indiana's machining base — automotive suppliers around Fort Wayne, the Indianapolis industrial corridor, and job shops spread between them — runs the same Mazak generations as Michigan's. The machines don't care what state they're in, and neither does the training gap. What geography changes is the scheduling, and that's a conversation, not a disqualification.

What we'd work on

The work itself is identical to my Michigan engagements. Training your operators on the control generation you actually run, including the older controls the factory no longer teaches. Bringing a used Mazak into production when its buyers got no training package with it. Getting a crew productive after the shop's one Mazatrol person departs. Cycle-time and process work on running jobs, done as training so your people can repeat it without me.

For the homework version first: the Mazatrol training roundup lays out the factory, dealer, college, and independent options without a thumb on the scale, and Mazatrol training in Michigan describes how these engagements run close to home.

When something on a Mazak lathe isn't working

I do this for a living. If you run Mazak lathes in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, or elsewhere in Indiana and your people need to run them better, send me the part, the machine, and the control version. I'll tell you what's possible.

Thank you, Tom Herzog