 The company entered the machine tool industry with the first fully automatic, programmable collet indexer.Over the next four years, the company expanded its product line to include fully programmable rotary tables, rotary indexers, and machine tool accessories.In 1987, Haas Automation began developing its first vertical machining center (VMC), the VF-1, a machine designed to perform operations such as milling, drilling, tapping, and boring.