Succeed in High-mix CNC Automation
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In batch manufacturing the average CNC machine cuts chip only 25% of available production hours. Want to know how to reach 80% and beyond?
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Main Reasons for Low Machine Utilization
Inefficient set-up changes
Your machine tool requires not only the raw material but also correctly measured cutting tools, verified NC programs and accrurate workholding to run quality parts. It can take hours or even days to set up the next job in a machining center. And the higher your production mix, the more the set up process eats your spindle time.
Unavailable Nights and Weekends
Nights and weekends count over half of the potential spindle capacity in a year. In a high-mix machine shop, CNCs are typically idling overnight due to the need to run more than just one part – and the difficulty of automating those setup changes.
Insufficient Flexibility for Sudden Changes
Changes are part of our everyday life. When a rush job arrives, your CNC breaks or your raw material delivery is late, you need to adjust. You react: re-plan your production, re-route the most urgent jobs, order maintenance – and when you need to react, you lose spindle capacity.
Flexible Automation Changes the Game
“As the shop’s production mix and volume grew, the time required to construct multiple setups grew as well. Once Mr. Olsen realized that monthly setups took an employee four hours to complete he decided it was time to invest in CNC automation.”
Mach Machine, US
Learn How Flexible Automation Makes a Difference
Machine building
Gilbert Products
Fastems helped Gilbert to double the production output with the same number of employees. That enabled Gilbert to expand the product line and to more than double their sales revenues in just a few years.
Advanced Machining & Fabricating
FMS for Low-Volume, High-Mix shop provides stable, predictable process. Increased requests for complex components? The solution: Fastems FMS.
Machine building
USNR
Smothers knew to expect increased savings when he incorporated the FMS, reorganized the cell layout, and made lights-out production possible. What he didn’t expect was just how much USNR would save.
Machine building
Hirsh Precision
We communicate the due date and the quantity required, then MMS can ‘play chess’, says Peter Doyle, COO at Hirsh Precision.
Subcontractor / Job Shop
Rodin Machining
A revolutionary business model needs revolutionary automation this article is A SUMMARY. see original from the mtdcnc magazine 11/2023, pages 28-30 Rodin Machining is a Dutch contract manufacturer, offering an online portal for their customers to order parts with. Thanks to AI, quoting takes less than a minute and manufacturing can start almost immediately. […]
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