Any manufacturer that runs its machining centers 24/7 for years at a time has to make the quality and durability of those units a high priority. But when jobs call for high torque at low rpms on one shift and precision of ±0.0005 at high speeds the next, finding a line of machining centers that can cover all of a shop’s needs becomes difficult. That’s the challenge K-Fab, Inc., a shop in Berwick, Pennsylvania, faced when it sought to replace its old machining centers to take advantage of new advances in technology. After a thorough review and comparison of units from several top manufacturers, the company chose Kitamura Machinery’s HX series of HMCs.