NUMBER 02 - Haas Automation, Inc.
NUMBER 02 - Haas Automation, Inc.
NUMBER 02 - Haas Automation, Inc.
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CNC Machining: Do you feel you’ve reached that elusive<br />
creative highpoint, where anything you can imagine, you can make?<br />
Senior:I think so. I do – pretty much anything.<br />
Paulie: (joining in) Yeah! I think we can make pretty much<br />
anything I need – especially with the <strong>Haas</strong> . . . I mean, the <strong>Haas</strong><br />
CNC machines are huge for us. We’re now able to do everything.<br />
All the time, we talk about how capable we are, how innovative<br />
we are and how much technology we have. But you don’t really<br />
realize it until you come back here in the shop, take a minute and<br />
really look around. I mean . . . it’s amazing.<br />
CNC Machining: We assumed you got a big production<br />
machine like this EC-500 for manufacturing. But we see you’re<br />
doing all kinds of creative one-off stuff with it.<br />
Senior: Well, you’re always being challenged, you know what<br />
I mean? So . . .<br />
Paulie: . . . we step up to it. We’ve got a great program, and<br />
a great couple of machinists here, our guys Jim and Tye. I mean,<br />
they come up with great things. You can have good machines, but<br />
if you don’t have good people to run them, you’re not going to be<br />
doing good stuff.<br />
CNC Machining: We noticed, since our last visit, that<br />
everyone around here now seems to have a finger in every pie.<br />
We’re calling you guys “new renaissance men!”<br />
Senior:(laughing) Everyone has to do it all, that’s for . . .<br />
Paulie: . . . sure. Yeah, everybody has to know everything<br />
around here.<br />
Senior: (still laughing) That’s pretty much it.<br />
CNC Machining: Even with your crew of certified overachievers,<br />
OCC’s creative output amazes us. How do you guys<br />
make this unscripted television show work so well every week?<br />
Paulie:Good people. And you just direct the people and they<br />
go. They’re creative, and talented and very intelligent.<br />
CNCMachining: But, you always seem to be riding against<br />
the wind here . . .<br />
Senior:(jumping in) Always . . . always . . . always!<br />
CNC Machining: So, you’re telling us that this “pulling a<br />
rabbit out of the hat at the last minute” deal is really the way things<br />
happen?<br />
Paulie: Yeah. And it’s all very real. There’s always a<br />
combination of deadlines we have: one, the airdates for the show;<br />
two, actual unveils; and three, just our . . .<br />
Senior:. . . time!<br />
Paulie: Yeah . . . never, ever enough time.<br />
Senior:The thing of it is, even if we do have a minimal amount<br />
of time to build the bike, incorporated in that minimal amount<br />
of time we’re out doing other things. We have to sometimes be<br />
on the other side of the world and back, and still get the thing<br />
completed. So it’s . . .<br />
Paulie: . . . And then, if we have a lot of time for a bike, it<br />
always gets scrunched down to no time, in a matter of minutes,<br />
with all the schedule changes. There are always a million reasons<br />
to get something else done first.<br />
CNCMachining:So the pressure is as real as it looks on TV?<br />
Are you saying it’s a force that actually improves your work?<br />
Senior:Pressure’s definitely part of it. I think that’s what keeps<br />
it interesting. You’ve got to have goals, you’ve got to have reasons<br />
to do stuff, but it’s got to be interesting.<br />
Paulie: Yeah, it’s real. If we had to fake pressure, it would<br />
show, and . . .<br />
Senior:. . . and we wouldn’t be here!<br />
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