Every AMB brings its share of impressive machines and software demos, but few tell a story as clear as the one SolidCAM and Citizen shared this year: a partnership that works on both sides of the show floor.
Visitors to the SolidCAM booth found a Citizen Cincom L20XII CNC machine running live cutting demonstrations for the duration of the event. Every job on the machine was programmed with SolidCAM, giving attendees a direct, unfiltered view of what advanced Swiss-type programming looks like when it meets Citizen’s precision engineering chips flying, cycle times ticking down, and complex geometries taking shape in real time.
A short walk across the hall told the other half of the story. At the Citizen booth, SolidCAM ran a dedicated station focused specifically on Swiss programming for Citizen machines, walking visitors through the workflows that make Citizen platforms perform at their best under SolidCAM’s control.
This wasn’t just two companies sharing floor space. It reflected a deeper, working relationship one that continued in conversations away from the demo machines, as the SolidCAM team met with Citizen’s management to discuss how the partnership will keep evolving.
Seeing Citizen hardware and SolidCAM software cross-promoted at each other’s booths is a simple but powerful signal to the market: these two technologies are built to work together, not just to coexist. For manufacturers evaluating a Swiss-type CNC solution, that combination proven machines paired with purpose-built programming removes a lot of the guesswork.
AMB 2026 gave both companies a stage to demonstrate exactly that. As Swiss-type machining continues to grow in demand across precision manufacturing, SolidCAM and Citizen are well-positioned to keep pushing that collaboration forward together.
