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News Release from: Citizen Machinery UK | Subject: Citizen M32 CNC sliding headstock automatic lathe
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2002
High pressure coolant cuts automatic's
cycle times
A turning shop has been able to immediately cut cycle times by 12 per cent on a highly complex stainless steel part by using a high pressure coolant system in a CNC automatic.
Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden City has ordered a top of the range, Citizen M32 CNC sliding headstock automatic lathe from NC Engineering of Watford The machine order, which includes the 2,000lb/in2, Cool Blaster programmable high pressure coolant system, follows the highly successful retrofit of Cool Blaster to a new M32 ordered at EMO 2002 and installed in December
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over the last two years directors of Unicut Precision, Jason Nicholson and Charles Kenny have spent over GBP 1.3 million to re-equip their small turned parts subcontract shop with Citizen machines.
The Citizen line-up, to which, the new M32 will be added in April, includes four Citizen B12s, two L32s, an L20, M20 and the recently installed M32.
Says Charles Kenny: "The market has shifted to demand higher quality mill/turned parts, produced in difficult materials, in a single machining cycle and with very short lead times, for which the M-Series of Citizens is ideal.
Since the M20 and M32s have been installed," he maintains, "we are able to meet daily call-offs of components from customers and machine, pack, despatch and invoice.
There are no longer bottlenecks in workflow due to secondary machining operations as we are combining between two and five operations into one cycle giving us almost zero work in progress." With the Cool Blaster high pressure coolant system retrofitted to the M32, Unicut has been able to immediately cut cycle times by 12 per cent on one particular highly complex stainless steel part which uses some 22 tools to produce.
All swarf control problems have disappeared and speeds and feeds increased resulting in improved tool life. Request a free brochure from Citizen Machinery UK ...
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