Gene F. Haas Introduction: Before anyone can appreciate how amazing Gene F. Haas is, it's important to understand what machining is. So... Time for a quick education!
This is Iron ore. It may seem irrelevant but keep scrolling!
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They melt down this ore into bars of metal! like this one below.
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(Image 2) But how does this ugly ogre looking bar turn from the above to the below?
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(Image 3) A worker cuts that raw metal bar to become a beautiful precise outcome (ex: above rod). A person who does this is referred to as a machinist. But machinists aren't wizards, they don't cast spells to turn metal from a - b. Instead, they use heavy machinery. Here are two examples down below.
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(Image 4) Lathe used to cut round metal material. Or
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(Image 5) Milling Machine
Overview: Metal comes from ore. Ore is melted into metal bars. Machinist are the people we pay to cut those metal bars into specific projects. In order to cut metal bars, machinist use lathes and milling machines.
Now that you've been educated, lets talk about Gene F. Haas.
Gene F. Haas: (Image 6)
Gene was born in Youngstown, Ohio on November 12, 1952. His parents were "go getters" and always pushed him to work hard and be creative. While he was growing up, his father worked as a designer of electrical cabinets for Hughes Aircraft. His mother worked as a teacher at a local school. They both influenced him deeply. When he was still a child, his family moved to Los Angeles, USA. This was very crucial moment for Gene, because of this, he found a luxurious job of floor sweeping and beautifying the local machine shop at the age of fourteen (Gene, 2015). Six months later, after hours of hard work, he was promoted to preparing lathes and milling machines for operation. He worked at that job all throughout High School and eventually received his High School diploma.
After he graduated, he went on to furthered his education at California State University Northridge, receiving a bachelor of science and accounting and finance. While at university he also studied engineering and business. After graduating, he stayed with his job, working as a machinist in another local machine shop. After "perfecting the art" he decided to started his own machine shop in California where he fabricated aerospace and electronics parts. It was called Pro-Turn Engineering (Haas, 2013).
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As he started building more and more aerospace and electronic parts he was daunted by the task of removing tools in both the mill and lathe. He tried finding more and more conventional ways to remove tools, and put them back in, but it still seemed to take up a lot of time. As a result he developed the first ever fully-programmable 5C collet indexer. That's just a bunch of fancy words for saying, he developed a device to hold tools, automatically And change them out automatically. This is a really big deal! This invention boosted productivity to machine shops worldwide. He continued to develop more automated equipment. He created state of the art automated programmable mills and lathes, boosting his productivity even more. His small fabrication shop in California began to evolve into one-million square foot warehouse (Haas, 2013). He started to develop a name for himself, and started the company Haas Automation Inc. The company continued to grown in usability and popularity until today, when it is now the biggest machine manufacturer. It all started out with one man, with an idea to quicken productivity. and that man was Gene Haas.
Along with designing monumental machinery feats, Gene also put stock in NASCAR. In 2002 the Haas company raced their first car in the Winston Cup. They continued to fabricate their cars and in 2008, hired Tony Stewart to drive them. Tony won numerous races and made Haas one of the top NASCAR crews. Now Haas is making plans to join the Formula One racing team (Associated Press, 2014).
Gene Haas is not perfect however, In 2006, now a millionaire Gene Haas, was incarcerated for tax evasion and served for two years in jail (Johnston, 2006).
Introduction:
Before anyone can appreciate how amazing Gene F. Haas is, it's important to understand what machining is. So... Time for a quick education!
This is Iron ore. It may seem irrelevant but keep scrolling!
They melt down this ore into bars of metal! like this one below.
But how does this ugly ogre looking bar turn from the above to the below?
A worker cuts that raw metal bar to become a beautiful precise outcome (ex: above rod). A person who does this is referred to as a machinist. But machinists aren't wizards, they don't cast spells to turn metal from a - b. Instead, they use heavy machinery. Here are two examples down below.
Lathe
used to cut round metal material.
Or
Milling Machine
Overview: Metal comes from ore. Ore is melted into metal bars. Machinist are the people we pay to cut those metal bars into specific projects. In order to cut metal bars, machinist use lathes and milling machines.
Now that you've been educated, lets talk about Gene F. Haas.
Gene F. Haas:
Gene was born in Youngstown, Ohio on November 12, 1952. His parents were "go getters" and always pushed him to work hard and be creative. While he was growing up, his father worked as a designer of electrical cabinets for Hughes Aircraft. His mother worked as a teacher at a local school. They both influenced him deeply. When he was still a child, his family moved to Los Angeles, USA. This was very crucial moment for Gene, because of this, he found a luxurious job of floor sweeping and beautifying the local machine shop at the age of fourteen (Gene, 2015). Six months later, after hours of hard work, he was promoted to preparing lathes and milling machines for operation. He worked at that job all throughout High School and eventually received his High School diploma.
After he graduated, he went on to furthered his education at California State University Northridge, receiving a bachelor of science and accounting and finance. While at university he also studied engineering and business. After graduating, he stayed with his job, working as a machinist in another local machine shop. After "perfecting the art" he decided to started his own machine shop in California where he fabricated aerospace and electronics parts. It was called Pro-Turn Engineering (Haas, 2013).
As he started building more and more aerospace and electronic parts he was daunted by the task of removing tools in both the mill and lathe. He tried finding more and more conventional ways to remove tools, and put them back in, but it still seemed to take up a lot of time. As a result he developed the first ever fully-programmable 5C collet indexer. That's just a bunch of fancy words for saying, he developed a device to hold tools, automatically And change them out automatically. This is a really big deal! This invention boosted productivity to machine shops worldwide. He continued to develop more automated equipment. He created state of the art automated programmable mills and lathes, boosting his productivity even more. His small fabrication shop in California began to evolve into one-million square foot warehouse (Haas, 2013). He started to develop a name for himself, and started the company Haas Automation Inc. The company continued to grown in usability and popularity until today, when it is now the biggest machine manufacturer. It all started out with one man, with an idea to quicken productivity. and that man was Gene Haas.
Along with designing monumental machinery feats, Gene also put stock in NASCAR. In 2002 the Haas company raced their first car in the Winston Cup. They continued to fabricate their cars and in 2008, hired Tony Stewart to drive them. Tony won numerous races and made Haas one of the top NASCAR crews. Now Haas is making plans to join the Formula One racing team (Associated Press, 2014).
Gene Haas is not perfect however, In 2006, now a millionaire Gene Haas, was incarcerated for tax evasion and served for two years in jail (Johnston, 2006).
References:
Gene Haas Biography. (2015). Haas F1 Team. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.haasf1team.com/genehaas.
Haas History. (2013, June). Retrieved February 18, 2018, from https://www.haascnc.com/about/history.html Haas CNC INC.
Johnston, D. K. (2006, June 20). Executive Accused of Tax Fraud and Witness Intimidation. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/business/20tax.html
Associated Press (April 11, 2014). "NASCAR owner Gene Haas granted F1 License". USA today. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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