Yeong Chin Machinery at 55

No great occasion in China goeswithout the insistent beat of drums.YCM抯 55th anniversary and InHouse Celebration on a clement day lastDecember was no exception - an occasionthat announced both the end of an era, andbeginning of a new one, in the life of aTaiwan company with name and fame inthe global machine tool industry. One of the mightiest drums of all, theJapanese 揘?odaiko with portly drummersrhythmically pounding either side of theinstrument hewn from a single tree trunkaccompanied by a 慶horus?of smallerdrums, resonated around factory groundsas foreign guests, local dignitaries andemployees, sat spellbound by a virtuosodrumming performance. Taichung抯 ebullient mayor, Dr. JasonHu, probably summed it up best in hisown original anniversary tribute. 揧oumight think YCM to stands for Yeong ChinMachinery, but replace machinery withmiracle and you have the 55 year historyof this remarkable company in a nutshell,攈e said. There were enough ribbon cuttingVIPs, the Taiwan Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs amongthem, and foreign guests at the celebration, to second the sentiment. As the Mayor admitted, even although his own attendance wassomething less than a miracle, it had still been a toss up betweenmeeting with a high ranking Government official to talk aboutindustrial subsidies or the YCM celebration. YCM won 揵ecausesuch is its importance in our provincial machinery sector that whenits President calls you cannot decline.? Glancing back, looking forward It was a time for looking back and looking forward to a vision of a company based on the foundation of 55 years in thebusiness of making the kind of precision machinery withoutwhich, many of the user products we take for granted, wouldnever see the light day. Looking back to 1954 when Chin Sung Chen opened his firstfactory in down town Fong Yuen, a far cry from the vast acreageof factories, warehouses and main administrative block thatconfront any visitor to the company today. A company recognizedas Taiwan抯 leading CNC metal cutting machine tools supplier.Looking ahead to the advanced and multiple range of machiningcenters makes Taiwan Machinery Industry proud. YCM was the first Taiwanese machine tools manufacturer accredited the ISO 9001 Quality As surance System Certificate by theBureau of Standards of the TaiwanMinistry of Economic Affairs. It was alsothe most advanced Taiwanese machinetools maker awarded the ISO 14001Environmental Management SystemCertificate by Germany抯 TUV Rheinland. A strong sense of founder ChinSung Chen抯 passion for the nuts, boltsand 慼eavy metal, that really does makethe world go round, is everywherepresent strolling along assembly lineswhere a gleaming new CNC lathe, theNT-2500SY, equipped with built-in mainspindle and sub spindle, is in the finalstages of production. The new DCV4035B Double ColumnVertical Machining Center, a knowledgeableguide tells a clutch of foreign and localguests, is one of the company抯 latestmachines in a star studded inventory ofVertical machining Centers. She went on to rattle off a spec listthat boasts a12,000rpm spindle speed, anHSK-A100 spindle taper, X/Y/Z travel(4065/3500/1016mm) and HEIDENHAINiTNC530 control. To a question froma curious foreigner on other important specifications every potential clientwants to know she cited X/Y/Z feedrateof 20/20/20 m/min and a table size of4,100x 2,400mm with max load on tableof 20,000kg. On top of all this there is3,100mm distance between columns anda 120T tool magazine capacity. It has, ina word, all the appearance of yet anotherYCM market winner. When it comes to universal millingheads, YCM is again without peer ?thefirst Taiwanese manufacturer in fact tosuccessfully invent the universal millinghead it named ROBO1. With 5-axessimultaneous design, achieves 360 degreeroNike