MACHINEMATE

Our   Heritage

 

The staff of MACHINEMATE INC has more than 80 years of experience in the machine tool industry. This application expertise includes CNC and motion control.

 

After an extensive evaluation of CNC products, Giddings & Lewis (a machine tool builder in Fond du Lac, WI) found that the Power Automation PC-based CNC product had the best performance, value and potential so G&L entered into a business relationship with Power Automation. Power Automation is the German company that developed the original version of the control. G&L had trademarked the name, MACHINEMATE, and sold the control under that product name. In the summer of 2000, the division within G&L involved in the CNC business decided to stop the development of the G&L CNC products. When G&L made the decision to exit the CNC control product business, Power Automation formed the US company MACHINEMATE INC. MACHINEMATE then absorbed the G&L open architecture PC-based CNC business. The entire staff consists of former Giddings & Lewis employees. The staff experience includes the marketing, sales, research, development, application and service of CNC products in machine tools (primarily for the Giddings & Lewis product lines but also for some of the Kearney & Trecker products) as well as PLC-based motion control. Members of the MACHINEMATE staff were even involved in the development of the original CNC standards (in the 1980’s).

 

To learn more about the history of Power Automation and its PC-based CNC products, please browse the Power Automation web site.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us at:

MACHINEMATE INC.
100 West Larsen Drive
Fond du Lac, WI 54937-8520

Phone: 920-907-0001

Fax: 920-907-0181

Email: info@machinemate.com