To make sure you don’t miss out on the future installments, be sure you’re on our weekly email newsletter. What’s clear is that Fanuc and Haas are way ahead of everyone else at the High End while Mach 3 and PathPilot / LinucCNC rule the Low End.įor the next installment, I dig into the results on customer satisfaction for the different controls. Some of these motions reflect real competitive movement and some is just noise. We may survey next year and find the places have changed again. It’s always iffy to put too much stock in relative market moves.

The next tier down with players like Mazak, Heidenhain, Mitsubishi, Okuma, Prototrak, Fadal, and Fagor are relatively unchanged.

Centroid is another notable climber, moving from 14th place up to 5th.Siemens, by contrast, moved down from 2nd place 11% to 4th place 5.18%.Haas moved up quite a lot, from 3rd place 9% share to 2nd place 15.55%.Fanuc keeps the top position, though their share has declined slightly from 21.5% to 17.99%.If I compare these results versus 2016’s survey, here’s what we can see for trends: The world of CNC Controls is nothing if not diverse!

There are two few responses for the other controls to make a statistically significant comparison, but there were some 27 additional controls called out. Those are just the controls with more than 1% market share–more than 5 responses on the survey. Inevitably, this leads to a shake out and helps consolidate the position of the market leaders (Mach3 and LinuxCNC), but it takes a while for the shakeout to occur. It has fragmented the market quite a lot. I read that last part as there are a lot more choices in the low end world than there were a year ago. Everything else has fallen down the list.Not sure what that means given it is the future of Mach 3. Mach 4 is hanging in there to slightly lower.Mach 3 has gained a bit of share versus PathPilot / LinuxCNC.If I compare that to our 2016 numbers, here are the trends I see: If we break down the relative share of the Low End CNC Controls, here is what we see: As in 2016, the majority of respondents are using CNC Machines with higher end controls:

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