The acquisition represents a significant investment by Forkardt to use the latest machining technology available.Īccording to Bill Sepanik, group general manager of Forkardt, “The new system expands our capacity to meet growing application needs. If done right, you could run all of your repeat work at night "lights out", and all of the new stuff (parts, programming, tooling prove outs) during the day.Forkardt, Traverse City, MI, a leading manufacturer of workholding solutions including both standard and applications-specific chucks, announces the purchase of a Mazak Variaxis 730 vertical machining center.
How many hours every night (after day shift is gone) are you losing in production? How many dollars is that worth to the shop? Would that help you to stay caught up in work? Being able to run a number of parts "lights out" would increase your capacity without adding extra employee costs. Now, I don't know enough about the conditions of operating in your shop, but that is what is typical.įor new parts, you can still allow the manual mode to be utilized for prove outs or program optimization. This sounds more like you're getting all excuses and no solutions. Unless the FMS is something new to them all together. The E level version is not much different from the previous versions. Your machines have probes? Pallet ID system? Tool ID system? All of these can help to prevent mistakes. Doesn't matter if you need 1 or 100,000 parts. but firmĬlick to expand.The FMS can easily accomodate to this. Any time I tried to impose the auto mode, it was rejected. For the moment, I only feel that I have to let them get used with this idea. I hope that in time they will find advantages in running in auto and use it more often. Others are simply scared of the new software.
My impression is that some are just not ready for such amount of work they suddenly encounter (there were 2 shifts before). In addition, we have to run new and repeat jobs and make sure we leave the cell on unnatended until next morning (we have one morning shift only). This implies a cumbersome management of so many divere jobs. Moreover, our specific is a mixture of custom and standard parts. To their credit, we do have to test even repeat jobs because it happens that tools have wrong offsets or somebody changed tools in pockets without authorization, or programs need updates even after first run. Some of them simply tell it is not possible because it is too dangerous.
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