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Adaero knocks out the competition on anaesthesia equipment
10 Oct 2008
Investments in Citizen sliding-head capacity gave Adaero Precision the edge over fixed-head competitors and allowed it to win a contract for three 316 stainless air flow adjusters for anaesthesia equipment.
For up to 32 mm diameter small turned parts production, we will only use Citizen CNC sliding head turn-mill centres. says Mark Pearson engineering sales manager, from our experience, these machines provide the highest level of flexibility for producing these types of parts, and because of their user friendliness in terms of job changeover, we gain most from the speed and efficiency of resetting.
Adaeros two Citizen machines, a top-of-the-range M32-III and a mid-range L20, produce batches of 500 or so parts in Acetal, aluminium, brass and a variety of stainless steels. Such is the complexity of some of the single operational cycles that although cycle times can be relatively long, the overall benefits are really significant through combining operations and shortening lead times.
According to Mr Pearson: We were up against competitors using fixed-head lathes, but due to the capability of the Citizen we were not only able to easily beat their cycle times but we were also able to absolutely trounce them with the quality of the samples we were able to produce.
Mr Pearson maintains that a major influence to the business is the adoption of single operation strategies wherever possible, to reduce labour content, chances of error and handling damage in turn reducing lead times while work is held awaiting further operations.
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