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Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2005
Mori Seiki opens UK Technical Centre
Following the acquisition of Hitachi Seiki by Mori Seiki, in 2002, the decision was taken to establish a new Technical Centre in Slough, UK, replacing the Milton Keynes facility.
Opening the new Mori Seiki UK Technical Centre in Slough, last week, the president of Mori Seiki, Dr Masahiko Mori said that machine tool consumption had begun to go up again in Japan and that the same thing may happen in the UK The reason, he said was that until recently, machine tool demand in China had been met from domestic production and although Mori Seiki established a sales support outlet in China since 2001 it has only been in the last year or so that the market has really opened up to outside suppliers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The reason for establishing the new technical centre in Slough and closing the Milton Keynes facility is that customer location has moved, since the acquisition of Hitachi Seiki by Mori Seiki.
To put matters in perspective, the number of installation bases rose overnight from 2500 (Mori Seiki) to 5000 (Mori Seiki + Hitachi Seiki) and the number of customers from 650 to 1200.
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The Milton Keynes facility had been established in 1985.
The new Technical centre will support Pollard Mori Seiki in Leicester, UK and Irish customers as well as the Swedish and Norwegian markets.
Mori and Pollard reported on the success of Mori Seiki's 'N' Series of NC lathes, turning centres/mill-turning centres and machining centres.
Although, on average, the N series is some 20% higher in machine cost, they offer an average reduction in machining times of some 30%.
Tool lives are raised by 20% while power consumption is reduced by 30%.
"Profit for the user is raised by 21.1%, compared with 10% on previous models said Mori.
In Japan, Mori Seiki now operates three plants (Nara, Iga and Chiba).
Average machine tool outputs for Nara, Iga and Chiba and Iga are 250, 270 and 80 units/month.
The latest ?N series machine tool, the NL series of CNC turning centres, feature a dedicated live spindle drive in a much-strengthened turret and carriage.
Mori reported that 1500 of the NL Series had been sold since June 2004.
Indeed, against a forecast demand for 120 NL units/month, Mori Seiki is currently producing 200 NL units/month.
Looking ahead: Mori Seiki plans to introduce lower priced machine tools for the low price machine tool market.
The company also intends to encourage the sales of its modular machine tool range designed to replace rotary and linear transfer systems.
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