Tom Copeland is a longtime employee at TRAK Machine Tools in California. While at TRAK served as the VP of Operations for 40 years and currently the Chief Technology officer for the past 2 years. Also affiliated with AMT and the MTConnect Standard with serving on the Board of Trustees and the Chair the Robotics and OPC-UA Companion Specification Working groups.
He is driven by:
• Monetizing Technology : Separating the BS from the Science
• People : Always looking for people who are ready to step-up and take on more responsibility
• Competition : Being a leader in our part of the market
• Customers : Creating more value for our customers

TRAK Machine Tools – Southwestern Industries, Inc. develops, makes, sells and supports transformative technology that fits the way our customers run their shops. Since 1963, we have been an industry leader in innovative products for machinist productivity. The ProtoTRAK CNC – designed, engineered and built in the U.S.A. – is the cornerstone of our toolroom product line which includes bed mills, knee mills, lathes, CNC retrofits and Toolroom Machining Centers. TRAK uses a team approach to successfully integrate new technology into shops. Our sales representatives, application experts, engineers and support personnel work together to provide the type of service our customers need and appreciate. Starting in 2022 TRAK added Siemens technology to the product line which includes the Sinumerik One CNC Control and the Run MyVirtual Machine software products. These products have also been implemented in TRAK’s own machine shop using Digital Twin techniques as the enabler for new production improvement projects.