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Improved Production Systems Recognised
01 Apr 2004
This month, Facts Precision Ltd, a Glenthroes based manufacturer of precision machine components for the automotive industry received official certification to ISO TS16949:2002, the global standard for a quality management system for automotive production. Facts Precision is the first Scottish company in its field to gain this accreditation, which it has worked towards for the past 12 months with funding and assistance from Scottish Enterprise Fife and Business Gateway.
High Volume Supplier Offers Small Batch Work
01 Apr 2004
One of the leading producers of high volume precision turned parts in the UK, Coleshill-based MSP Turned Parts has recently invested in two Star sliding head machines to take on smaller batch quantities of parts in steel, brass and aluminium.
Product Development Leads to Large Contract
01 Apr 2004
Shearline Engineering, Cambridgeshire, has secured a long-term contract to produce a quarter of a million components for Baxall, a leading British manufacturer of high quality CCTV equipment and video network solutions. With previous help from Shearline, Baxall has made considerable inroads into the security camera production market, successfully competing against companies based in the Far East.
Production Cell Set Up for Auto Knuckle
01 Apr 2004
When Coventry-based King Automotive Systems won a sevenyear contract to produce the front left- and right-hand knuckles for the latest Range Rover, it needed to invest in vertical turning, as the 11kg components were too heavy for the company's horizontalspindle lathes. So at the beginning of 2002, an Okuma & Howa 2SPV55 twin-spindle vertical turning lathe (VTL) supplied by NCMT was installed opposite a preexisting, horizontal machining centre to form a knuckle production cell.
Prototype Tubes for Sound Curtain Required Fine Holes
01 Apr 2004
An unusual job completed in January by Holifields, Abingdon, involved drilling and tapping fine holes in silver-plated, mild steel tube. Two such components were machined for use in an innovative sound curtain being developed by a London company, Aylo, to halve the level of environmental noise entering a room, or even to convert it to a soothing sound that resembles the sea.
New Sliding Head Follows £0.5m Spend Last Year
01 Apr 2004
LMS Precision Engineering, Worcestershire has recently taken charge of its latest machine tool, a Citizen type L32, which follows a spend of £0.5m on three new machine tools last year.
