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News Release from: Citizen Machinery UK | Subject: Citizen L20 CNC sliding head automatic lathe
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 July 2003
Three-man company buys into high-tech
CNC turning
Key to expanding the subcontract machining capability is to acquire the latest CNC sliding head automatic lathe, says three-man subcontract machinist.
Key to expanding the subcontract machining capability of R W Brown Precision Engineering of Clacton is the recent installation of a Citizen L20 CNC sliding head automatic lathe from NC Engineering of Watford Said managing director Bob Brown: "Although we are a fairly small operation with only three people, we have been very successful in supplying turned parts and performing prismatic part machining for food packaging machinery, diesel engine manufacture, plastic moulders and special purpose machinery companies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We have been costing out existing components and reckon the Citizen is so productive that even if we had to increase our hourly rate by 50 per cent we would be far more competitive than we could ever hope to achieve with our existing methods of multi-operational techniques." The decision to buy their first CNC sliding head lathe from NC Engineering was made from a combination of machine capability and the willingness to provide support.
"Indeed," maintains Bob Brown, "with the number of changeovers we are doing, the level of hand holding support we have received from NC Engineering has made the change in technology almost painless." "With the inclusion of NC Engineering's Alkartpro off-line programming system this has helped to reduce setting times on the new machine tremendously.
"No one pays you to program, the profit comes from the product you supply," he maintains. Request a free brochure from Citizen Machinery UK ...
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