Faced with a sluggish domestic economy, Japanese
machine tool manufacturers have been increasingly
dependent on foreign markets even in the current strongyen
environment. Figure 1 is a bar graph representing
the number of Mori Seiki machines delivered to each
region in FY 2011. As you can see in the graph, the
number of machines delivered inside Japan accounts for
approximately 30% of the total machine delivery. There
is a significant difference in maintenance man-hours
between domestically-delivered and exported machines.
Mori Seiki has 44 service bases across Japan, where
some 30% of the machines sold are used, to support
domestic users, while covering all overseas users with its
90 service bases worldwide.