"If you are buying a
commodity machine off the shelf, your choices are limited at that point."
The base price of machine tools may be a reasonable barometer when assessing
commodity machine tools, but falls short when producers of high-production automotive components examine machine tools.
Introduced at IMTS 2002, the Nexus machines are credited with giving Mazak a fully-equipped product offering that has taken market share, even in a difficult market, from
commodity machine builders.
"Three years ago," he explains, "there were a lot of relatively goods value, low-cost
commodity machine tools being imported that ran well.
Cassandra is designed to store large datasets over a set of
commodity machines by using a peer-to-peer cluster structure to promote horizontal scalability.
But, if that is the case, do we have the production facilities that can accommodate low cost
commodity machines and, the other way round, does Asia have the facilities to make technical machines?" he asked.
www.dmtg.com) again displayed some of its
commodity machines at the booth run by Ingersoll Production Systems (Rockford, Ill.), the specialty transfer-machine builder it had acquired in 2002.
The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an application server that allows companies to deploy Web 2.0 apps across "lightweight,"
commodity machines -- the same winning application architecture formula proven out by Internet leaders such as Google, Yahoo!
This time, companies are not blindly throwing
commodity machines at a spiraling capacity problem.