Caron Engineering News
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- TMAC and AutoComp at Morris South's Productivity Improvement Day
- Lobsters & Learning at
Hegman Machine Tool - WESTEC – 2009
- EASTEC – 2009
- IMTS – Chicago – 2008
- Highlights from EASTEC 2008
- TMAC communicates with ChipBlaster
- Case Study #1 -
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Caron Engineering News
Case Study #1 - TMAC allows 350,000 tools to be used without breaking
May 7, 2008A large manufacturer of aircraft components has purchased over 20 Mori Seiki Horizontal Machining Centers in the last 5 years. In that time they have used over 350,000 tools to machine an expensive aircraft component and have not broken a single tool.
Each Machining Center is equipped with a Caron Engineering TMAC System with Adaptive Control, as well as a Blum Laser Control System and a Blum Part Inspection Probe.These components all work together saving tens of thousands of dollars in tooling.
The entire machining cell is managed by only 3 to 5 people. The operators have developed such confidence in TMAC that should any tooling problems develop, TMAC will react in milliseconds to correct any issues before the tools or parts are destroyed.
While exact savings in both dollars and man hours were not available at the time of publishing, it's obvious that applying TMAC to your cutting applications with the ability to monitor and control over a quarter million tools with out a single breakage would increase your bottom line.