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Providing subcontract manufacturing services for the past 30 years to the defence, aerospace and hydraulic industries, prismatic machining is the most recent addition to the D&S portfolio.

Although the company had been deploying its existing three and four-axis machining centres with admirable effect, customer pressure for reduced prices led D&S to seek a method of eliminating second and third operations.

"We knew that the facility to hit five faces simultaneously would help us machine components complete in a single set-up, " explains director Steve Maconnachie.

Mr Maconnachie also said that he is receiving more and more enquiries for high value components. "However, many ask whether or not we have five-axis capability - if we say 'no' they won't even ask us to quote."

"The benefits have already been tremendous, " he concludes. "For example, one of our regular repeat jobs used to take 80 minutes to complete over three operations. Now, using the DMC60T, it takes just 26 minutes to finish in a single set-up. It also allows us to quote for jobs that we would previously have been precluded from without five-axis machining capability."

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