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Me
tal
grinders
have
two new options to consider when looking for machinery. United
Grinding Technology recently released information about several of
its grinding machines, including the Profimat MC and the Planomat
Profimat
MC
The
Blohm Profimat MC, a Universal Profile grinding system from United
Grinding Technologies, Inc. (UGT), for creepfeed applications, is
a powerful traveling-column machine capable of multi-axis grinding
in a tight space-saving 2,000 mm-wide footprint.
According
to Chris Stine, vice president, the Profimat MC is increasingly
the choice of manufacturers employing or implementing cellular or
lean manufacturing. He
notes, for example, an aerospace customer who has 38 Profimat MCs
arranged in multiple lines producing turbine components.
Driving the lines is a strict adherence to takt time, a
central principle of lean processes which dictates that a specific
number of finished parts must come off the lines within a set time
— less than a few minutes. This
is accomplished by simplifying and breaking down operations
according to takt time, grouping machines tightly together in
cellular fashion and limiting operator involvement.
“In
this case,” Stine says, “the Profimats replaced a battery of
dedicated, largely inflexible 12-axis grinding centers and
resulted in significantly slashing lead and changeover times and
reducing floor space by 75 percent.”
Access for machine maintenance is from the front and back,
allowing the machines to be set virtually side by side, which
facilitates swift production flow from machine to machine.
Also, side-by-side stacking permits a single operator to...
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