HELLER Machine Tools Shop Tour | Troy, Michigan USA

We visit Heller Machine Tools USA to see how CNC Machine Tools are Built. Titan Gilroy and Barry Setzer give an exclusive look at Heller Machine Tools USA. See how machines like the H 10000 and HF 5500 are built from the ground up. Heller has been in manufacturing for 128 years and continues to make industry changing improvements with their machines and in support for customers, making these machine the choice for facilities like Detroit Diesel and Cummins
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00:00 Detroit Manufacturing
00:47 First look at Heller Machine Tools USA factory
01:44 Heller Machine from 1954
02:34 H 8000 vs H 10000
05:05 Solid Cast Iron Base of Heller Machines
07:04 HSK 100 Monstrous Spindle
08:17 48 Years at Heller
09:31 HF 5500 Beast at 3500 IPM
10:45 Improvements to Heller USA Facility
11:15 How Heller's Support Improves Production
13:46 Bringing Awareness to Manufacturing
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[@CbrGoPro]

Thank you, Titan. Im a German manufacturing engineer too, and it's good to see that we still have people that value manufacturing. Let's respect ourselves again and be proud of what we can do here. Without manufacturing, there's no product out there.

[@user-ip9dk8bt9i]

I have a question for you, engineer, can you explain to me what is the importance of making machine tools in Germany?

[@seagullsbtn]

I’m so pleased to “discover “ this channel. There’s an art, blended with science and incredible human ability in everything you do,

[@barrysetzer]

We are glad you found us, too!! And glad you appreciate the artistry involved in this trade. Thanks for watching, Chris!

[@bvileyx]

With as little bias as possible my man, it’s one of the most in depth mixtures of science technology engineering and mathematics, the R&D and trial and error that got this ball rolling would’ve been awesome to be a part of or watch unfold, I believe it’s the peak of manufacturing, and almost the epicentre nowadays

[@joec-hd6dc]

Definitely 10 BOOM'S FOR HELLER!!!

[@barrysetzer]

I second that. 20 booms total now 😂🎉

[@ipadize]

Boom Boom Boom Boom, i want you in my room

[@RickheadWashington]

I started looking into KZbin videos about machining for just simple machining of gun slides. But I keep watching your videos on this big stuff because I find it educational and really it surprises me every time.

[@trevorgoforth8963]

It’s pretty easy to see these guys are legit and are working to solve their customers problems every single day. Thanks for the tour!

[@Bav92]

It's not a coincidence many of us are going on 35+ years with the company. Let's go!

[@Summit_Moto_Utah]

Manufacturing is coming back in force to America... thx Heller thx Titan... this is a great story!!! So proud of you all!!!

[@johnmontgomery1421]

Just shipped the CMM fixtures that will be checking the Cummins heads coming off those machines. Great to see companies re-investing in their US facilities. It creates a big ripple effect, NC to MI to our facility in GA. BOOM!

[@Grabos_paints]

I'm working in the UK, and we're currently making prototype heads for Cummins. We've already shipped 100 fully machined heads.

[@jmowreader9555]

Two things: First, the fact that Heller has so many machines in production makes me relieved for the future of manufacturing in America. This isn't a car factory, where they make a bunch of product and stick it on dealer's lots so people MIGHT buy the cars; places like this don't start making a machine until someone has bought it. When something leaves THIS factory, it is going to ANOTHER factory to start making other things. And second, you have seriously got to have your act together as a machine shop to make these. The work in this machine has to be absolutely flawless because a machine can't get closer tolerances than it has itself.

[@AfroSnackey]

Hit the nail on the head, my guy.

[@ryanclarke2161]

Mind bending machines, no idea these existed till Titan showed them off.

[@shompy12]

That Pose at 2:39 almost had me spitting out my drink 😂😂😂 You guys are awesome and seem to have lots of fun doing what you love!

[@barrysetzer]

🕺 🕺 😂 and YES we have a blast!!

[@iconetsenterprise5362]

thanks so much the world really needs to respect manufacturers

[@4DModding]

Shoutout to Martin - 48 years experience BOOM

[@barrysetzer]

Yeah that is something you dont see too much anymore! Go Martin!!!!

[@Bav92]

@@barrysetzer He is the best

[@barrysetzer]

@@Bav92 Yeah it was great to meet him there!!! Super nice guy!!!

[@joshuakipkurketlochakori1873]

I like working on CNC Machining, Studying Mechanical is really very interesting.... I'm pleased to discover this channel and learn from You.

[@wahutton8851]

It is really great to see these companies, their stories and see a glimpse of how they operate internally. Being able to manufacture is so important. Keeps jobs and industry going and you guys are reigniting that magic of excitement about machining. I have always loved big machines and seeing how these new machining platforms operate. We need it in the UK for sure. Thanks Titan!

[@scottchappell3193]

Yes we do need it in the uk,what prt of the uk are you in my friend iam from the west Midlands

[@wahutton8851]

@@scottchappell3193 Hey Scott. You aren't far. I am in the Midlands too. Worcestershire to be specific.

[@edsmachine93]

Great video Titan. What an awesome story about Heller. The machines are absolutely awesome and massive. Thanks for sharing. Take care, EM.

[@noskingang2352]

You are right. These are the best machines ever.

[@stoodmoofin]

Another great video showcasing such a passion for engineering and a vision for the next generation to strive for perfection and self sustainability

[@isaacibbotson4632]

I love seeing that Detroit still has fires here and there left over from the all-consuming furnace that was the industry the city was built upon

[@rictaracing2736]

Always love your shop tours, amazing stuff!

[@hampopper3150]

Boom! Boom! Words fired, words fired! Heller is here to blow your brains away in a good way.

[@adambunce272]

One shop opens their doors and others will follow!! Awesome content par usual!! Love y'all!! Love this trade!! Get it!!

[@josephjaniszewski7127]

I live a mile away from them! Amazingly beautiful shop! 😍

[@bvileyx]

In awe of the dedication to education and pride in work awesome awesome effort gents 👍

[@albertaristine6760]

I have no idea about any of this but having watched this video I have to say it was very impressive. I watched it twice.

[@1967250s]

So happy to see that these are made In USA! Now to bring back more manufacturing jobs.

[@wmdjohnson]

Good to see you again bro. Dont see you in videos much these days.

[@brunobarks6544]

Hope for Americas future. Something you won't find on the main stream news. Thanks for the lift guys. God bless

[@wrighty338]

Loving the Heller content

[@unibeastbeats]

I respect that tool organization from that 48 year veteran

[@Metaldetectiontubeworldwide]

Boom ..boom ..boom. ..i want that HELLER in my room ❤😂 Grtz from the netherlands Johny geerts

[@kiteninjaa]

Insane Machines :)

[@klab3929]

Someone employed in a company longer than some companies has been alive is just pure insaneity

[@tdg911]

What’s in motion stays in motion comes to mind when looking at these big machines... it’s really amazing to take this much mass and move it around like it’s weightless. Insane engineering. Yet another awesome tour thanks guys for continuing to bring us these awesome behind the scene tours. Much love and gratitude

[@barrysetzer]

Unless acted upon by an equal or opposite force! I shall provide the opposite force with chips!!!

[@tdg911]

@@barrysetzer buwhahahaha love it! Need to have a sit down with you my intellectual brother! master machinist, coder and cool ass guy. My type of company.

[@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE]

BOOM!!!

[@jesseservice7828]

Muito bom !

[@LoneWolfPrecisionLLC]

Yall inspired me to start my own company. Many of the products I use in my hobbies are made in China with poor quality and high prices. I want to change that

[@barrysetzer]

YESSSSS!!!! Thats what its all about bro!!! If you ever need help jump on our FB machinist group. 70,000 people including the entire Titan team ready to lend a helping hand!

[@LoneWolfPrecisionLLC]

@@barrysetzer already have been all up in there. I Make lots of posts about the umc750 I run at my day job! It's a great group

[@Rimrock300]

The option to buying poor quality at high prices must be buying high quilty at high prices or what? Or is there a 'high quality at low prices' option?

[@robertlevine2152]

Great tour! In watching this and the Detroit Diesel video it stirred the old brain matter. I grew up in the Detroit area, Pontiac and Southfield. My first job, at 15 years old, was with a company that designed machines for the automotive industry. May I suggest that you produce a video that shows the differences between machining an engine block in the 1970s and today? The end product is the same, a fully machined block. But, instead of the block being moved down the line and stopping for each function, say boring cylinders or drilling holes for cylinder covers, a single machine can be used for multiple purposes. I would guess that Detroit Diesel has historic films of the machines companies like Lamb built.

[@wadafruit]

I have not a single ounce of a clue how to run even the easiest one of these type of machines. But I had the highest respect for people that operate these type of machines. It takes a special type of brain almost like an engineering brain just to understand it. You got to have a really technical type brain I guess. But it's just cool stuff to really watch.

[@artmckay6704]

Wow! Thank you for this! It's so inspiring to see an American company like Heller just killing it! :)

[@danielquatrone4654]

german company.

[@johnpaullus6649]

Awesome Stuff!!!!!!

[@Terminator550]

Heller: We build Monstrous machine tools Waldrich Coburg: Hold my beer

[@Ellehsdee]

Bad ass machines! America first!

[@Quarterpounderspatch]

Sick

[@jakemoeller7850]

Amazing! 😮

[@steffelsnake79]

German engineering ❤❤❤ I live near Stuttgart 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@TITANSofCNC]

Love Stuttgart

[@thewoodshopdust4141]

“Respect the titans”

[@Tomasso2009]

COOOOL !!!!

[@suicideghostftp]

4:20 we have these things too, theyre insane, steps of 1micron per meter

[@Honzishek]

nice machine shop, pretty same like TOS 10 years before i were there, . But little smaller machines, anyway pretty nice tour. And please whole america you should start to use MM instead of inches . :D cool Titan keep it up man . ! ;)

[@rosewhite---]

1954 has very wide slideways fo long term rigidity. When I worked in UK factories no one ever adjusted the gibb strips or serviced anything.

[@danielhurford6706]

"It's machining on a whole 'nother level" -Titan

[@barrysetzer]

“YES!” -Barry

[@vonpredator]

Great video Titan! Question, where are the castings for HELLER made?

[@car9167]

Not in China for sure

[@UndercoverFerret404]

Daaamn. How do you even cast something that massive?

[@kevinbasto5611]

The world must be "HUGE"... who's buying this stuff??

[@scottchappell3193]

We have 3 8000 ones at our shop and ìts a complete beast the one I program

[@barrysetzer]

YESSSSS! They are MONSTERS!

[@hubertqueen1541]

If a machine company says it can do it. To an extent. It should. That is what it is engineered for.

[@Yuzuki017]

8:17 I do the same thing. im not a machinist.... I work in a small shop as a coil fabricator.... I work with wood, cement, and copper. I have four large steel tables and two small square trinity 5 tier carts that i use to organize my tools. two of my steel tables are half filled with tools that I disorganize regularly as I want to speed through my processes.... everything has a home though. c: the guys all think it isnt smart to not lock my tools up.... but nobody touches them.... XD. good people. good workplace. I dont have the capability to maintain as clean a space as that though... as cement has a tendency to get everywhere by just existing. commented because... I also have very little space on my heavy use tables to do work on... as I keep my tools out... and organized in the same way. most valuable to my work space is my 4x2 rolling table... second most valuable is the 4 same-height welded steel horses .... would be nice to have 4 small square quad swivel tables. but.... you just cant find them in the right height/ strength/ surface size ratio.

[@kdenyer1]

People always talk about the big stuff flying around. Just think about those small bearings carrying all that weight. Without them you would not have CNC machines running anywhere as fast or as rigid as they are.😊

[@polyfoamcoats1650]

How would machines from Heller compare with that of the same class from Yasda?

[@privatesocialhandle]

"We Family" from the "The Machine and the Furious" starring Vin Diesel.

[@barrysetzer]

😂😂

[@toeknee3868]

What's the qualifications needed there to get a job.... Extremely interested

[@Beanpapac15]

I'm somewhat surprised they're using linear roller guides, I was always led to believe that box ways are the ultimate way to go for mills.

[@fedordolgachev3268]

Box ways are great for slower machines but for machines that zoom around linear rails are basically the only way to go for not super accurate and precise machines.

[@toeknee3868]

Can't wait to see Brandon Herrera shoot first ak-50 cal gun when you're done machining the part. Have you guys finish that part yet or do you know when you guys will be done. Just wondering when I should be looking forward to watching the video I'm Brandon Herrera's channel

[@Peter.S96]

I can tell by the accents that ralf and others in that factory in the USA are originally from germany.

[@perceive8159]

Hope Heller has a good company pension plan for the old boys 😊

[@ardennielsen3761]

just like the 1 inch 4340 CV axle on my car... 4.6L V8 280lbft 400'000km 60'000 liters of gas, then it snapped the axle. 1'000'000 mile engines? and then by the time its there... someone else gets it, just to see if they can make sense of it? out in a field, welded the stud back on... could very well have had a 8kw inverter in the vehicle to power everything used to fix it. things no one see's... need the tool bit to re-cut the axle splines where I welded it.

[@robertminnicks1136]

Are the bases still aged and what is the procedure now days, because they are just huge.

[@barrysetzer]

They are aged much longer than you might think…..years.

[@cncwoodarts]

Titan, what is your favorite CNC machine brand? Heller? Doosan? Makino? You have so many different machines. If you had ot pick one...which one?

[@TITANSofCNC]

Heller are Top Level… and great for shops needing to run 24/7 365… But really, it depends on what the Applicatiion is. DN Solutions are great for medium to high production.

[@TritonTv69420]

​@@TITANSofCNC you still like your dmg's?

[@cncwoodarts]

@@TITANSofCNC If I wanted a CNC machine for moderate production 12hrs/day 6 days per week. Reliabile to +/- 0.0005 on a solid setup. approximately 40x20 size. What would you recommend? Aluminum based parts will need high RPM spindle. I have been looking at the Okuma Genos M560/M660V. Bridge style 30hp spindle. But there are so many options.

[@archie3537]

BOOM AVIATION GREENSBORO NC. 24

[@soufianemrsm4127]

Top top top

[@i_am_a9495]

how about DMG MORI?

[@anthonyalbillar-montez5946]

HSK 100

[@therealme613]

Boom bro boom bro bro bro boom yo bro bro bro bro bro bro

[@alivalon]

How much do you make as a machinist / machinist operator or is it caled industrial mechanic, in the US?

[@_ZERgyt_]

3:14 Why mm? But not football fields?

[@fieur]

ehm, boom?!

[@13anomalous16]

6:00 "3500ipm" WHAT!!!!!!??????

[@dieselphiend]

I hope this company is prepared for The Establishments all out war against small, and medium sized businesses.

[@daynosdr]

With the amount of booms this guy drops, how is he allowed to fly anywhere?

[@hurozgur8610]

2:50'deki Adamın gözleri çok korkunç, aynı Dr. Hannibal Lecter'e benziyor

[@barrysetzer]

Hahaha dont worry, I only murder metal 😂

[@stevehayward1854]

When I was in business, I would have given my right arm for a line of Hellers. I am concerned to see a massive investment in ICE engine production, living in the UK I can see the end of the road for ICE engines. I know America is committed to ICE vehicles but the end is in sight and if America doesnt change, the US motor industry will wither away

[@TITANSofCNC]

Thanks Steve, What I didn’t show is that they actually are heavy into electric vehicle production… meaning Detroit Diesel.

[@k53847]

I want to see the charging stations for 45 ton Ecombines during harvest season when they are running 20+ hours a day. Who is going to bring a high voltage transmission line to each farm in North Dakota? Or will they just use a LM2500 gas turbine burning diesel to charge their CO2 free equipment?

[@stevehayward1854]

@@k53847 There will be some exceptions to the rule but for the vast majority of vehicles, EV's are superior. But we are engineers and we what ever limitations there are to electric vehicles, we will overcome them and they are probably a use case for Hydrogen, which can be refilled in minutes but they are more expensive to run than EV's which is at the moment the driving force behind the electrification of transport. Co2 is not on the mind of most people and businesses dont care, it's down to cost.

[@AnimasiParody]

Apa gue doang yg dri indo😅

[@danielquatrone4654]

How much manufacturing of the parts vs only assembly is done in detroit? Too bad wall st pretty much destroyed our industrial infrastructure.

[@coolman4833]

I search training for this cnc machin "can you help me"

[@importanttingwei7747]

Let's see how reliable a ford is by asking the top executives can it go a million miles

[@barrysetzer]

Or you could go ask Detroit Deisel, Cummins, Caterpillar, BMW, Paccar, or any other GIANT in the industry why they have so many Hellers……

[@ColKorn1965]

I wonder how many younger people in US are even considering a career as a machinist. Most of the ones I meet are only interested in living with their parents until death, playing video games, and eating Cheetos. I do know a couple who want to be electricians.

[@LackofFaithify]

Maybe because most people don't know this is even an option you boomer. Remind me, which generation sold all we had to china? If you need a hint, it wasn't our older brothers and sisters in gen X, it wasn't the Millennials, it wasn't the Zoomers. You. You did this.

[@darthvader5300]

I am still waiting for an American to show his own machine tool factory that uses it's own ORIGINAL machine tools to make DUPLICATE MACHINE TOOL COPIES from it's own machine tools. From raw ore materials to the finish products.

[@angellopezbarroso7759]

😮🤑💸💸💲💲🔧⚙📐🕒👍👍

[@mackk123]

companies like Heller should pay a negative amount in taxes.

[@Megadronte]

Heller origenal german

[@Megadronte]

Große amerikanische Fresse

[@mohammedalbattal77]

First one

[@vapofusion]

Boom, that's on a whole 'nother level!

[@millerkarthik8408]

Dmgmori better than this machine Dmgmori provide dual servo in both horizontal axis x and z That was more efficient for machining faster

[@jordyjords1928]

This is just mechanical pornography

[@Slicc_Daddy]

Heller Machine Tools USA?? The origin and founders are from Germany/Nürtingen but we all know how cocky you guys are over there in the States!!

[@340ironman]

Do you have a channel where the camera doesn’t change so fast. Hard to watch videos these days when editing is out of control. 3 to 5 seconds is all we need to see something