Plant & Equipment 12/12/01

Premises

Modern 7,500 sq ft Factory, fully alarmed including 24 hr. CCTV surveillance. Fully air conditioned inspection facility operating to ISO 9002.

CNC Machining Centres

All the machines listed are DNC. linked and programmed using a "Visicam" CAM system.

Daewoo Mynx 500. 1 Metre. Machining Centre X1020 Y514 Z775, refrigerated Spindle, 8000 rpm, 1.5 second pre select tool change, swarf conveyor, tool breakage detection/offset probing, rigid tapping.

Chiron FZ 12 W. High speed machine with automatic pallet changer, 0.9 second tool change, X550 Y300 Z425, very high speed drilling and rigid tapping, tool breakage detection/offset probing.

Fadal VMC 3016. Full 4 axis machine, 10,000 rpm spindle, refrigerated spindle & ball screws, X760, Y407, Z508, high speed 3D machining facility, tool breakage detection/offset probing, rigid tapping Renishaw MP10 job contact probe for part location and inspection.

Cincinnati Milacron Arrow 500. Acramatic 2100 control, X510, Y510, Z510, 25m/min rapids, 5 seconds tool change, 6000 rpm spindle, rigid tapping.

Cincinnati Milacron Arrow 500. Full 4 axis Machine, Acramatic 2100 control, X510, Y510, Z510, 25m/min rapids, 5 seconds tool change, 6000 rpm spindle, rigid tapping.

Cincinnati Milacron Arrow 500. Fanuc 18i control, X510, Y510, Z510, 25m/min rapids, 4.5 seconds tool change, 8000 rpm/15hp spindle, rigid tapping.

Fanuc High Speed Machining Centre. Fanuc OM B control, 25m/min rapids, Tapping at 3600 rpm, X500, Y380, Z300, 1 second tool change.

Fanuc Robodrill High Speed Machining Centre. 40m/min rapids, Tapping at 8000 rpm, X500mm, Y380mm, Z300mm, 0.5 second tool change 11000rpm spindle.

 

C.N.C. Turning Section

Mori Seiki CL25 Turning centre. 25 Kilowatt main spindle drive motor, for machining difficult materials such as stainless steels up to 300mm diam.  Fitted with Renishaw LT02 Job contact inspection probing.

Hyundai HIT 15 (Bar fed). Siemens Hitrol control, 55mm spindle bore. 40m/min rapid, 0.5 second tool change, programmable tailstock, Max swing 360mm, Hydrofeed 4m length bar feed, automated tool offset measurement, parts catcher.

Daewoo Lynx turning centre.  Fanuc control, chucking diam upto 200mm 2" / 50mm bar capacity.

Hardinge CHNC II. Super Precision Turning Centre. Maximum turned diameter 100mm, parts catcher, Siemens 810T Control, repeatability within 0.0001mm.

Conventional Services

Bridgeport Turret & Jig Milling (with DRO).

High Precision Turning (Hardinge & Lorch).

Centre Lathe Turning to 15" swing.

Surface Grinding (Jones & Shipman 540).

Production Cylindrical Grinding (Jones & Shipman 1070, auto sizing).

Hosan Horizontal High Speed Auto Drill 5 Station

Lapping up to 150mm diameter.

Guyson Bead / Vapour blast part finishing cabinet.

Range of Drilling & Specialist tapping facilities.

Die Polishing (Diprofil).

Horizontal Bandsaw, semi automatic cutting, with capacity upto 250mm .

Extrusion and Non Ferrous Semi Automatic Sawing.

CAM / Software

Pegasus Operations II (production and inventory control).

Visi - Cam Mill / Turn 5 with surface modelling 3D interface.

N-See virtual CNC program verification with solid modelling software.

DNC to all machining centres.

External file transfer including IGES/DXF (2D or 3D) files ProCnc software.

Inspection

Mitutoyo High accuracy 3 axis Co-Ordinate measuring machine, FN905 with full CNC control and QCT Inspect 3D software.

Zeiss Universal Microscope measuring machine, measuring accuracy better than 0.00005mm. Rotary axis facility, enables measuring of large diameter screw cut items, helical milling etc.,

Verdict Trimos 500A Digital Height gauge (granite bed).

Talysurf Surface Measuring equipment.

Full range of supporting equipment including plug gauges, screw plug gauges, vernier callipers, micrometers etc.,

All gauging traceable to NAMAS standards and operating under BS EN ISO 9002 approval