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Production Efficiency Boosted by FMS
01 Dec 2005
Burgess Hill subcontractor, HPC Engineering, has invested £1.5m to purchase a new Makino A100 2APC horizontal machining centre, upgrade an existing, similar machine on site, and link both with a Fastems automated storage and retrieval system for machine pallets and raw materials. The resulting flexible manufacturing system FMS has made a big impact on production efficiency across a wide range of large components, some of which are up to 1.5m long.
When the requirement for machining capacity of this size increased, in particular with the advent of a contract for machining aluminium torque tubes for sports cars, HPC recognised that not only was a second spindle necessary to cope with the workload, but that a change in production practice was needed to reduce the economical batch size from between 10- and 40-off down to between one- and five-off.
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