Why Motor City Spindle Repair? Our 10 Year History

Motor City Spindle repair was founded in April in 2008 by Brian Burns and myself, Ted Ladzinski.  We wanted to bring our experience in the cnc machine tool industry to the Midwest, then the South and ultimately branch out across all of North America.  With over 10 years of success selling for multiple spindle oems we knew our previous success in sales would allow us to grow our business.  At first we out sourced everything except the sales process which was centered on customer service.  Primarily we sold CNC Spindle Repair Services but also promoted the manufacturing and repair of:  Ball Screws, Way Covers, Servo Motors, Gear Boxes and a few other misc. machine tool components.

As we grew it became apparent that our vendors could not keep up with our customer’s needs.  These demands center first and foremost on quality above anything else followed closely by fast quotations and lead times.   Cost savings was a very important topic but usually brought up last in the sales cycle.  Brian and I soon learned that you can only call in so many favors as a sales representative until your vendors consider you a nuisance.   We were told to stop “crying wolf”.  But it was not us constantly screaming for better service it was our customers.

Instead of making sales calls in the field which we enjoy Brian and I spent the majority of our time fighting over delays with quotations, spindle repair lead times, quality, pricing and an overall lack to communication.   We routinely complained we had to sell ourselves to our vendors more than we had to sell these services to our customers.  This was completely backwards.  It had to stop if we could ever focus our dream of working with the world’s largest cnc machining corporations.  This made the only solution obvious.

We had to start over yet again.

We had to revert back to our core business:  cnc spindle repair.  And we had to perform spindle repair in house.

Years after opening Motor City Spindle Repair Jeff Carter joined the Motor City Family.  Jeff had worked with Brian Burns and myself at (3) other spindle repair companies.  Two of these companies were Spindle OEMs and Jeff had experience at yet another well known Spindle OEM giving Jeff to date 26 Years Experience in Spindle Repair Industry.  We decided the focus of our company would be the tear down, inspection, assembly and testing of cnc spindles.  We would only hire spindle technicians with extensive experience and outsource the remanufacturing of spindle components such as grinding, machining or other re-qualifying processes.  This proved to be extremely successful until word spread and sales volumes started to break 20 spindle repairs a month.  (Currently we are rebuilding 80+ spindles a month).  It was obvious owning just an Okuma Lathe, a Bridgeport Mill, and few surface grinding machines would not cut it.

We had to again take control of the spindle repair process in order to achieve our customer’s demands.  So Motor City bought several more grinding machines and hired full time machinists (instead of Spindle Room Technicians performing these tasks) and full time spindle grinding technicians.  This dramatically increased our in house spindle components rework capabilities.  It provided internal cost savings but most importantly led to much greater control.  If you can not control every aspect of the spindle repair process you can not control your lead times.  The more you process in house the higher your level of control.

It is now 2018 and I am happy to say we have grown to (26) employees.  Last than (4) and a half years ago Motor City Spindle Repair had only (7) employees.  We’ve been blessed to be able to hire many of the employees we previously worked with at other major Spindle OEMs.  Now that we are offering excellent health benefits, high hourly wages and what I feel is one of the best “Incentive Based Monthly Bonus Program” we can hire and retain the best Spindle Technicians in North America.  An example of this is Ed Dee who worked for DMG Mori the World’s Largest CNC Machine Tool OEM.  Ed moved all the way from Dallas, TX to work in our Motor City Spindle Room.  Other recent hires include (3) New Spindle Technicians from one of the World’s Largest Spindle OEMs.  This brings our Spindle Room up to (8) Full Time Spindle Assembly Technicians and more evidence we are on the right track.

I am 100% committed to hiring only the best spindle repair technicians and support staff the machine tool industry has to offer.  It is my intention to treat and compensate all of these employees so once they join the Motor City Family they are here for as long as they wish to work.  Many of my competitors are making their employees sign Non-Compete Agreements.  I do not believe in them.  I never will.

Currently our backlog of spindle repair is at it’s highest in our companies history.  We have purchased a 25,000 sq/ft facility to hire more staff and significantly upgrade our in house grinding and machining capabilities.  We need to once again take back control of outsourcing to shorter our lead times.  We are also working with more and more manufacturing companies that run spindles in excessive of 10-12′ in length.  Having in house grinding capabilites for these spindles is a must.  These machines are being purchased and will be running very soon.

If you have experience running large manual grinding machine tools or are an experienced machinist please contact me.  We are always HIRING!!!

We are trying to move into our new home as quickly as possible but it is a process.  The good news is our (5) year lease is not up until Nov. 1st of 2018 and we will remain open throughout the entire moving process and run both locations until the new facility is 100% operational.

If you’d like to meet with me, anyone from our sales staff or spindle room please contact me anytime.  Likewise for onsite consultations at your manufacturing facility anywhere in North America.  Tours of our Spindle Repair Facility is always available.  We have an open door policy.  Thank you for your interest in the Motor City Spindle Repair Team.

Sincerely,

Ted Ladzinski

President / Owner

Ted@motorcityrepair.com

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157+ Years of Experience In Our Spindle Room Serving the Largest Corporations in the USA
Aerospace
Automotive
Agriculture
Machine Tool
and many others

24/7 Emergency Repair Service + We Deliver.
Industry’s Most Aggressive 1-3 weeks for standard repairs
We will get your machine running in no time.
Dedicated staff available 24/7 to assist you with emergency spindle repair services.
We offer door-to-door pickup and delivery on our emergency repair services.

We Repair Depending On Your Need.
Guaranteed Cost Savings as we have in-house machining and grinding capabilities
8 Full Time Technicians in our spindle room

Balanced, Test Run, and Certified with A Full 1 Year Warranty
Spindles are test run at maximum RPM, while performing vibration & temperature analysis.
Bearings are checked for velocity & displacement.
All electrical components are tested, repaired and replaced as needed.
Dynamic & Static Balancing of Spindles at maximum RPM.

Repair specialists for your Motorized or Belt Driven machines:
Horizontal Machining Centers
Vertical Machining Centers
Turning Centers
Grinding Machines
Any other machine tools

We offer the following spindle upgrades:
Air Purge
Ceramic Bearings
New Bearing Configuration
Encapsulate Motor Windings
Retrofit spindle shaft with removable drive keys

We specialize in Fanuc Servo Motor Repair, including:
i series
DiS series
ALPHA series
BETA Series
ROBODRILL series