Manufacturer

TRAK Machine Tools

TRAK Machine Tools is the machine-tool brand of Southwestern Industries, Inc., which was founded in 1951 by former Lockheed engineer Dr. Fred Jenks and is headquartered in a 130,000 sq ft engineering, manufacturing and showroom facility in Rancho Dominguez, California, with a second 120,000 sq ft plant opened in Henderson, Nevada in 2021. It builds the ProtoTRAK conversational CNC (introduced in 1985) and fits it to TRAK knee mills, DPM bed mills, TRL toolroom lathes, the TC2 turning center, the VMC2 and the TMC toolroom machining centers, all aimed at toolroom and short-run work. Since 2021 it has also produced the VMCsi vertical machining centers and TCsi turning centers on the Siemens SINUMERIK ONE control for high-mix production, sold and serviced factory-direct across North America.