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Rotary and linear transfer machines
News Release from: Mikron Machining Technology | Subject: Rotary and linear transfer systems
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 August 2005
World's fastest trotary transfer machine
claimed
Producing the world's fastest rotary transfer machine able to produce parts at a rate up to 500/minute, Mikron has on offer a wide range of modular rotary and linear transfer systems.
With more than 1,000 companies in the world using more than 7,000 Mikron transfer machines, the Mikron Machining Technology division is a core business in the forward thinking global operations of the CHF 340 million (GBP 155 million) turnover Mikron Group The division engineers turnkey application solutions to enable the maximum productivity to be achieved out of the production of components for a diverse range of international names in the automotive, medical, security, electrical and electronic, domestic appliance and office equipment sectors
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The division, headquartered in Agno with a process development and build facility in Rottweil, Southern Germany, employs more than 560 people and is the world-leader in high volume machining technology.
In particular, for parts up to 32mm diameter by 50mm long, it lays claim to developing the world's fastest rotary transfer machine able to produce parts at a rate up to 500/minute.
Indeed, in volume manufacturing terms while speed of production is important to drive down cost, the Mikron core expertise is the ability to combine productivity with high levels of quality and consistency with ingenuity to introduce innovative methods and applications as well as providing simultaneous engineering services to customers.
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Linear and rotary transfer high speed machining systems of various size and flexible CNC machines of different productivity and flexibility levels drive down production costs.
This capability places the company in a niche position as a high precision solution provider.
The automotive sector accounts for 60% of Mikron's machine tool production and in particular the short cycling, combination of tooling solutions and high productivity makes the demanding and very competitive fuel injection business a major source of orders taking almost a third of machine tool sales.
Holding a massive 90% market share of the writing instrument market means some 20% of Mikron machines are built for worldwide sale in this sector.
A further 16% of machine sales are taken by general engineering production components such as pumps and valves.
Europe dominates the sales territories of Mikron taking three times the levels of the second place Asian market followed by North and South America.
Around half of sales generated are repeat orders that confirms the levels of satisfaction enjoyed by users.
Within the Mikron Machining Technology division product range Mikron has four basic levels of production solutions Multistar, Multifactor, Multifast and Multistep.
The world record holding Multistar rotary transfer machine has 24 stations and is typically used by companies producing high volume parts.
Indeed, some 40 billion ball points are produced on over 1,000 of these machines every year around the world.
Multifactor, a very high precision mechanical/CNC machine for cycles up to 60/min, is easily retooled for producing symmetrical or non-symmetrical parts within a 100mm cube.
For components up to 120mm by 120mm by 150mm cube required at production rates of 100,000 or so a year, the modular construction of the Multifast, a full CNC machine enables the customer to add or exchange machining units according to product demand.
Multistep, built at the Rottweil facility in Germany, is a totally flexible machining concept for parts up to 150mm by 150mm by 100mm.
The Multistep concept is highly flexible enabling up to 5.1/2 face machining to be performed and provides the productivity of transfer line technology with the retooling and changeover capability of a machining centre for small batches.
It is also able to be reset within 30 minutes.
Central to the high productivity solutions offered by Mikron Machining Technology is the setting up of its own tooling operation Mikron Tool which combines some 40 years of problem solving into a highly specialised tool development and manufacturing operation.
Based locally in Agno, Mikron Tool employs 100 people producing tools from 0.2mm to 32mm diameter using the very latest tool grinding technology.
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