Partnership Adds Muscle to
Gym Equipment Production
Mazak and RADAN “Transform the way we Laser
Cut Tubes,” says Watson MD
A partnership between Mazak and the powerful
market-leading RADAN CAD/CAM software
has slashed the time taken by a gym equipment
manufacturer to build a piece of apparatus from
two days to half a day.
Watson Gym Equipment works exclusively in the
fitness industry, supplying strength equipment to
high-end PT gyms, for training professional and
Olympic athletes. Operating with 40 employees
out of premises totalling 40,000 square feet, the
company ships around 30 per cent of its products to
Australia with another 30 per cent going to the USA.
Twenty-five per cent stays in the UK (some of which
is for top-end home gyms – for example, footballer
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John Terry is a customer), with the remainder
destined for Europe and the Middle East.
Their product range of around 200 machines is geared
towards those where weights and weight plates are
added, focusing on anaerobic exercises to increase
strength. They are manufactured from sheet metal,
and box section steel.
Managing Director Simon Watson says a partnership
between their CNC machine tool supplier Mazak,
and CAD/CAM specialist RADAN, has completely
transformed the way they now cut that box section
steel.