Major Tool & Machine Tour - 600,000 sq ft JOB SHOP!

600,000 square feet of CNC machines? Leading contractor for aerospace, defense, power generation, and other large sectors of industry? YES! Welcome to Major Tool & Machine Tour in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In this monster job shop is a Parpas 20.4 HX high speed gantry mill, DMG Milltap 700's retrofitted with Siemens control for the employee training center, HUGE gantry mills prepping plates for fabrication, an RS-25 nozzle for NASA's SLS (Space Launch System), and some Giddings & Lewis machines - and we're just getting warmed up.
Fast approaching their 75th year in business, Major Tool & Machine remains one of the critical players in modern infrastructure and the advancement of aerospace technology. From project management to finishing, assembly, and testing, they do it all and the only limitation is what they can fit out the door!
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Links for this video
Major Tool & Machine: www.majortool.com/
Speroni Factory Tour: bit.ly/3dfeRQS
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CNC Resources: www.nyccnc.com 5 Reasons to Use a Fixture Plate on Your CNC Machine: bit.ly/3sNA4uH

[@jasonmead9907]

As an employee here for 2 years now, this video and the comments that followed gave me a new sense of pride I have working at this company. Thank you all so much!

[@operator8886]

You should be, mate. To be able to operate those expensive machine in itself is a pride.

[@ka7439gmail27]

Absolutely great company. Wow. Would move to work there...

[@Mfgguy]

You’re in a great place Jason.

[@fLaMeSeKeR16]

That looks like a super nice place to work, simply incredible what some places are capable of!

[@joeestes8114]

It looks like a great place to work! Very clean and organised.

[@dividingbyzerofpv6748]

The smudge on the lense is driving me nuts. Keep wiping my phone thinking it is a smudge on my screen. And now I cannot stop thinking of Rick & Morty. "Some say he looked like a smudge."

[@kkknotcool]

Makes me feel at home. Half the time my safety glasses are smudged.

[@inuyashacoolieo]

Same here!

[@dennisboisen]

Thank you I kept rubbing my screen

[@marianocardenas3440]

Wierdo focus on the video

[@rupert5390]

THAT WAS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PURPOSES SOME OF THE ITEMS ARE CLASSIFIED

[@ThePreyMantas]

I haven't seen a quality hi-end operation like this since I worked on the B1B, VLS, Titan projects at Martin Marietta, Middle River back in the early to late 80's. Impressive. @24:15 the cans on the pallets are actually sections of the VLS (Vertical Launch System) and when we made them back then (80's) Martin's had a purpose built machine that held assembled sections of the can for all at once machining! The ram was 30' long with multi-spindles running 2 facemills 90' to one another and it just rotated to hit all the surfaces of the guide pads internally. Pretty cool and vert accurate. I miss big machining... :( One of the best tours yet!

[@davidschnabel5026]

Great to see such large and productive machines here in the US

[@TheVince237]

Major tool and machine was my first job out of trade school as a tig welder in 2005. I saw some of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in my life there!........ very talented group of people.

[@donmathias1705]

Wonderful amazing tour. As a machinist I started on big gear but in New Zealand our big plants closed down. Huge shout out to Major Tool and Machine for granting access so you could put together this really enjoyable and mind blowing look inside the facility.

[@ManCrafting]

I love shop tours anyway, but this would be the largest I’ve ever been through. Wow.

[@joelpierson2628]

I owned a 5-10 employee Precision Sheet Metal job shop for 30 years and can't fathom managing one with 400 employees. The investment risk involved is monumental and rarely understood by most people that only see the successful results.

[@marianocardenas3440]

Any tips on owning a shop with 5 employees???

[@d.t.4523]

@@marianocardenas3440 Start a youtube channel. If we can see what's happening, we can offer advice on things we know about. If we don't know what is going on, we can't offer much that will be helpful. Good luck to you.

[@jasonmead9907]

@Миодраг Здравковић Said the Russian who knows "so much" about American manufacturing laws...🙄

[@mikeznel6048]

@@jasonmead9907 Right lol. What a clown. Someone needs to make the parts. If you have the drive and want to be that person and get those contracts, its there for the taking.

[@FabFunty]

If only I could persuade my wife that we all would have more fun with a walk in CNC machine than a walk in closet, just think what great school projects the kids could make with it😁

[@ShinyMajor]

Walk in CNC closet? Has a robot arm that grabs and stores clothes for you?

[@mikeznel6048]

@@ShinyMajor Man with a brain right there. Have your cake AND eat it too!

[@DonDegidio]

Hi John, First time I've seen such massive and precise machining. Thanks for taking the time in making the video and thanks to Major Tool for allowing the video.

[@foggycontacts3212]

I just love this type of video!!! Thank you so much, and can't wait for the next one!!

[@TrueMachine2]

John, Love your tours as always! Fun to watch you want to grab some tools, then you stop... "Don't touch...!". Thanks for the tour!!!

[@rsm169]

I am stunned! What a great shop! Thanks for the tour!

[@MOREENGINEERING]

Amazing John! Thanks for a fantastic tour(and of course, Thanks Mayor ;-)

[@navaho5430]

This is off the scale of SIZE your best shop tour yet, just in awe. That tool shop WOW, cheers from OZ.

[@jasonmead9907]

Well we're hiring if you're looking to locate!

[@max-weber]

At first I thought the blur was for protecting proprietary things in the video, then I realized it was just a smudge on the camera lol

[@JohnSmith-fx4se]

I’m pretty sure that there were plenty of intentional blurs too.

[@brandonbenjamin9452]

John Smith yup, 24:03

[@AnanusBananus]

My display glass is cracked and it matched with the smudge so I thought it was a weird problem from a cracked glass, but I realized it was just a shitty lens

[@patricksullivan9951]

Hi John, WOW, that was quite impressive, thanks for taking us along!!

[@COdrummaCO]

When that lathe operator was stuttering numbers, I was just like “that things huge and flying I NEED SFM” 1600sfm!! 👌🏻 that big I thought it was gonna lift off!

[@davekummer6587]

American craftsmanship at its finest

[@kahvac]

Thank you for the shop tour a rare and special treat !

[@harezy]

That smudge will be with me forever... Glad they are using Siemens great system. Some really cool stuff Thanks

[@starlyabadillo6529]

Just Love this shop thanks for the tour.

[@planetwisconsin9901]

Excellent video! Large scale metal working, nothing better! 😊

[@rupert5390]

NYCNC THIS IS YOUR BEST WORK AND YOU ARE PERFORMING A NATIONAL SERVICE - YOU ARE A GREAT GUY AND A PATRIOT

[@richardcary978]

Great video! Enjoyed watching the incredible machinery and the work that they do at that company. Very impressive indeed.

[@Bubbles-um1bi]

Great to see Siemens controls implemented. Very nice upgrades

[@MrValhem265]

Im half way through, this an Incredible shop tour woweeeeee.

[@TomZelickman]

That's an incredible setup! Pretty sure this is my favorite of the shop tour videos now. Hope you are well - Tom Z

[@astbrnrd]

The enthusiasm between the two of you geeking out is phenomenal 😊😁 🤔 Good blend of talent and tooling

[@mikeznel6048]

Geeking out? Seriously?...

[@xushenxin]

I don't even know this type of machine tools exist! It is amazing!

[@johnlockhart2674]

This shop is very very impressive , big parts being machined with very accurate machines!

[@jeffkeller1669]

That place is incredibly huge! What a huge tool crib too! Wow!

[@rickhaass1133]

best shop tour I have seen - impressive capabilities

[@wrighty338]

another great tour, such unique machinery in this shop holy crap

[@kisspeteristvan]

i like that they have an apprentice program , also the fact that every machine has it specialization and most of them are fully spec'ed . It shows that there really was a tought process building the company. The size of the machines makes me moist :D

[@WCGwkf]

the program we use at my job for thread milling is a single sub program with macros. you can make any thread, with a few macro changes. the program itself calculates everything as if it were conversational. never need cam or actual conversational with it. our programmer is an absolute master with his macro programs.

[@lescotta7427]

That place is so fricking awesome can't believe it. Saved it to differently see it over and over may have missed something. Great Video Thanks!!!!L

[@artava42]

Great shop. Great video. Absolutely great company.

[@842qwery]

I'm fascinated by this shop, even though I only understand a fraction of what they're talking about. Thank you.

[@Gallardo6669]

Super super great video. Thank you so much!!!

[@rayeaglenz]

A great video John, thank you :)

[@DoesNotGiveAF]

What an amazing place! I would love to work there, Thanks for the walk through!

[@brandonmahoney3550]

Another great shop tour!

[@bobwatkins1271]

Thanks for these shop tour videos. They give me hope that the United States might at least retain some of its manufacturing expertise.

[@shadowmanxyz7805]

Thanks for the tour!

[@robertreynolds9228]

Thanks for the walk along.

[@Erik-rp1hi]

I went to the McDonald Douglas plant closure auction for their plant that had been working since WWII in Torrance, ca. They made the parts for the DC-10 there and then shipped them down to the Long Beach assembly plant where they also closed that plant after finishing up the C-17 production run. The Torrance plant had heat treat, drop forge, plating, machining. Not much sheet metal. They had a CMM in a Plexiglas enclosure that was huge. About 80' square by 60' high. The "banjo" machined part was a solid machined part for the vertical stabilizer that had a hole in it for the 3rd engine.The CMM was used on it.

[@rldoyle5705]

This shop tour makes me proud we still have the level of machines and the workers to run them !! GOD BLESS THE USA!!

[@jasonmead9907]

Hey, as an employee of Major Tool, that made me feel really good. Thanks!

[@feedinc2735]

Fantastic video! Quite the operation.

[@Hani13ful]

I work for massive die form (magna ). Our shop has huge gantry machines like these. Nice tour John

[@evanbussel9367]

I used to work in the fabrication and assembly department there. They do some absolute awesome projects!

[@jasonmead9907]

Current employee there! Glad you still have pride in the work you did for Major!

[@dlfabrications]

Very impressive tour!!!

[@BenDuhs]

Fun to watch talking shop in a shop like this 😁

[@toolbox-gua]

And I’m dreaming of start with a manual 8x16 mini lathe! Now we know where big things are.

[@rickmatthewson9027]

Wow. What a great "Job Shop". I've been a CNC machinist/programmer for almost 35 years. My first CNC in 1986 was a Mori Seiki MV-40. I thought it was the coolest machine in the world. I've never seen anything this big, and fancy. Man have they evolved. The most impressive system I've ever seen was a 4 machine Toyoda horizontal cell with the pallet shuttle system. Can't remember the models, but they were 50 taper spindles. This place blows that away. At 25:42, It looked like someone lost a limb in that roller. Kinda freaked me out at first glance. 😱

[@Erik-rp1hi]

Great shop. We need more of this. Bring back manufacturing from China. I'm trying to help a company do this.

[@moonryder203]

Amazing Shop! wow!

[@neilwoodward7336]

Absolutely eye opening! Puts my Hurco VM3 into perspective 😩

[@rbrpulling]

Fives Giddings and Lewis machine are built in Fond du Lac, WI. 160 years and still going strong.

[@outsidescrewball]

As Jon said....WOW!!!!....thanks for sharing

[@gwharton68]

Great video. John, I think you new a big shop.

[@Konchshell]

that first machine is mindblowing holy heck

[@timothyvaher2421]

As a retired Aerospace Machinist, this is a kid in a candy shop tour! A pinnacle of Conventional and CNC employment. An MIT and JPL of CNC Programming.

[@MtnDewMonkey3]

I used to work in a place like that for 2 years, it was awsome working on giant machines that were 2 stories tall. You typically only made 1 part a day on most of the machines also they had cranes that were stong enough to lift a train car and then some.

[@jessejarvis3646]

these are parts you don't want to scrap

[@aaronhenderson4359]

This place is a realistic wet dream, the things I'd do to get an entry level position with this place! After 4 years in the trade this video shows me how truly green in the trade I am.

[@jasonmead9907]

Hey, if you're willing to locate, they'll probably take you on. We have guys there greener than you

[@Andrewlang90]

When I heard 400 employees for a job shop, I about pooped myself. That’s an insane number for a job shop.

[@sanjayr7977]

WOW!!! This can only happen in America. I am so impressed.

[@85CEKR]

There are some big shop with big machines in my area but this shop is a whole nother level

[@dougankrum3328]

This place is pretty awesome. I worked for a Machine tool Company in Los Angeles, California...1971-1980...Burgmaster..they were pretty big, made some big 2-3 axis turret drills and gantrys, then added VTC tools...they closed up in 1986...I was not there, but sorry to hear about it...Nice decent clean place, good machinery, top quality NC stuff...right as the CNC was coming out....the CNC machines themselves aren't really all that....What's new is the computer and software... Burgmaster could build a Gantry with up to 120 FEET of X travel, 120" Y and 60" Z....2, 8-tool turrets...they also built the 'Secret' Hughes Dual-center.....A huge Hughes machine with a big rotary table on 'Y' and 2 spindles at 180 degrees from each other on 'Z'... Burgmaster ran the old punched tape, but could perform 5 axis work....slowly. Many G-codes... I looked all over the youtube for Burgmaster stuff....all I could find was a few guys with their tiniest (but excellent) 6 spindle table-top drill/tappers...but, there is a video from a news article in the early 70's describing how Fred Burg and his brother started the company.....mostly a lot of talking, not enough of the machinery...Fred Burg came from Yugoslavia, very sharp guy, smart business and good machinist.... Fred Burg was another guy that started in a very small garage/shop....

[@jeffteza8644]

This should be required watching for all our representative in congress so they can understand the importance of generational learning and training necessary to stay competitive in our modern world. I'm from the semiconductor industry and am shocked how little people understand the level of engineering and expertise that goes into advanced manufacturing. Thanks to Major Tool & Machine and NY CNC!

[@mikeznel6048]

It's a shame none of that means anything now. The kids these days all want to be "influencers" and "creators" instead of being actual influencers and actual creators.

[@aka1gbr]

Amazing video!

[@porkerthepig]

The tool crib are is bigger than 4 out of the 5 machine shops I’ve worked in . Looks an amazing place to work

[@TomChame]

Very interesting, thanks.

[@EdgePrecision]

Very impressive shop!

[@navaho5430]

You could add BIG too your description cheers.

[@jylmachineshopvb]

Great tour!

[@alexkern9134]

NYCCNC / Protolabs shop tour would be the coolest thing ever.

[@jeeperzcreeperzz]

What an amazing shop

[@stewartmcneill2262]

Now that make me happy seeing USA quality craftsmanship go USA

[@doubledarefan]

Your camera's windshield washer fluid tank is empty.

[@Basement_CNC]

this is the top of the foodchain if cnc machines 😮im waiting on my first own cnc and i think thats not bad at 17 years old 🤟we do a bit og cad and cam at my school (htl , only found in austria i think ) and i absolutly love it , mecatronics was definitly the right choice (more versitile than machinebuilding) but mine cost 3.2k and i couldnt afford more , but 3 axis is a good start i guess next stop is probably a pocket nc v2 but thats still a long way , short term will be a prusa mini for even more ropide prototyping small size is because i hae to carry the stuff down in my parents basement (big shoutout to them for allowing me to use it 👍)

[@akronnekron233]

That is what I am talking about. This is real work. Small machine with small parts is not fun. Here one mistake can cost a lot. The satisfaction of getting the job done with these machines is like no other feeling.

[@CNC_MRC]

Lubię takie maszyny. Dobra robota.

[@bradthayer6782]

Very cool!

[@gyrogearloose1345]

Astounding and tremendous!! Have to say I am blown away by what I have seen here. Television programs like "Engineering Marvels of the World", "Greatest this that and the other" are mostly just hype and blather compared to this production. Why? Because John of NYC CNC knows what he is looking at, knows what he is talking about, understands what the shop guys are saying - they are all on the same page. The love and enthusiasm is real and shared and infectious. Kudos to Mike Griffith and Major Tool and Machine. Terrific work. Thank you!

[@jameswarner7435]

Absolutely! You eloquently summed up everything i found myself thinking after watching this mind blowing video!

[@mikeznel6048]

And this isn't just one big giant product placement video either.

[@johngriffin618]

Damn I'm sure your beating yourself up over the smudge. This was a great video nevertheless, one day maybe I can own a shop like this haha.

[@MrUltracoin]

All you need is billions of dollars in funding.

[@mikeznel6048]

@@MrUltracoin Thats actually the third or forth thing you need. You need the will and drive and want to do it first. Then you need the knowledge.

[@Nodularguy1]

Brian is watching and drooling over the size of machines

[@boonebarney5251]

I live 2 hours from there. I have always wanted to go see it

[@Shockwave_App]

This facility is extremely advanced!

[@leepierce1329]

I was there about 15 years ago. I know you were just focusing on CNC, but they had a flat stock roller that had a capacity of 6in thick and a plasma cutter that could do 12in thick. The company name definitely matches what they do.

[@SpencerWebb]

Too much fun! 👍

[@lucasluiz8735]

Awesome!

[@ClockwerkIndustries]

This is insane!

[@gadgetnightmare]

I ran a Cincinnati 10HC for years, I miss it. It was a little bigger though, 100" in X

[@Majortool]

We have a 3 10HCs (one is 100”) that we recently retrofitted with a Siemens 840D and upgraded the spindle to a 20HP. They are solid machines!

[@franklinblazek25]

John you need to see how gear boxes and gears are made! We have many SIPs

[@maxime121]

Чётко организовано производство, везде идеальный порядок, приятно посмотреть

[@ptfdchief]

Thank you

[@rickbruce6490]

Very good video we need apprenticeship programs down here in the south I’m in Birmingham Alabama we have Steward machine Co got one of the best programs I’ve seen in a while as far as apprenticeship manual machine and I think they have CNC also. I appreciate your videos very informative I love big big equipment I have a 22 foot diameter table I ran in mobile it down south Alabama ... I enjoy machining 5e large things lol

[@vaughtmade1203]

Awesome.

[@joecool509]

You should tour Peterson inc in Ogden Utah. Amazing shop

[@jackflash6377]

That was cool