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These productivity enhancements all were produced in house.
Turning hardened materials to grinding-like accuracies takes the right combination of part, machine and process parameters.
Today, the lack of skilled manufacturing employees is the major problem holding this company back. To clear the way for growth tomorrow, the company is determined to solve this problem. The answer is an internal university for developing the skills of every current employee and new hire, including many who have never set foot in a machine shop before.
Vibration is at the heart of a variety of common problems in machining holes. Mathematical analysis is helping to bring about a better understanding of hole-making processes...including how these vibrations behave, and what steps to take to bring them under control.
Long setup times on individual machines were stifling productivity. Setup times of 8 to 24 hours were not uncommon. Something had to be done, but it had to be done carefully.
This shop makes the oral devices that helped the shop owner and members of his family. Unattended machining is the key to making this therapy more accessible.
A wireless network can operate safely and effectively in a hostile shop floor environment, as the experience of this welding and machining company shows. Interference from other sources of radio waves can be avoided by installing suitable data access point hardware. Data security can be established with encryption and other techniques.
From the outside, it looks somewhat like a resort hotel. From the
inside, it isn’t set up like any job shop you’ve probably ever seen.
Using a collet-type workholding system, a high-volume shop improves accuracy when machining round parts.
This production cell embodies several unusual but very effective concepts for keeping process variables under control with little operator intervention.
