Mazak to Modify Its Machines to Enhance Export Compliance

Mazak Corporation, the North American manufacturing, sales and support arm of Japan-based Yamazaki Mazak Corporation announced that all of its products will have relocation detectors installed in them. Mr. Tomohisa Yamaszaki, president of Yamazaki Mazak Corporation has pushed the company to include these detectors on every machine produced and shipped from any Mazak plant to any location throughout the world.

The relocation detector is a permanent device that will be located in the electrical cabinet of the machine. Any repositioning of the machine or relocation will signal an alarm and in turn completely shut down the machine. A password will be required each and every time the machine is moved to verify the new location.

This technology has been available for quite some time. This is however, the first time it has ever been used to prevent violation of US and Japanese export laws.