Production Machining

SEP 2017

Production Machining - Your access to the precision machining industrial buyer.

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More than 40 apps are available, with new ones developed each month, to enhance machining efficiency. Fair Friend Group As the largest machine tool group in Greater China, Fair Friend Group (FFG) includes 51 manufacturing bases worldwide and 38 machine tool brands, including Mag, Feeler, Ikegai, SNK, SMS and DMC. e company was founded in 1979 and began selling machine tools in 1984. FFG was one of the founding members of the Industry 4.0 working group in Germany and sees the foundation of its 4.0 vision depen- dent on customer focus, providing solutions and service and application of big data across the company value chain (not only the manufacturing process). TBI Motion Specializing in linear motion products, TBI Motion Technology Co. offers products such as ballscrews, linear guides, ball splines, single-axis robots, linear ball bearings, couplings and support units. Besides the machine tool industry, the company's products can be found in such applications as medical and solar energy equipment, robotics, parking systems and other general industrial equipment. Established in Taipei in 1986, the company has since opened other manufacturing facilities in Taiwan. It is repre- sented in the U.S. by Anaheim Automation in California. YCM Founded in 1954, Yeong Chin Machinery Industries Co. (YCM) has grown into a large supplier of VMCs, HMCs and CNC turning centers. e company sold more than 1,500 machines in 2016, and its Taichung facility has capacity for as many as 2,000. e company attributes much of its success to its focus on advanced technology and efficiency. Learning from the Toyota Production System (TPS), YCM has developed its own (YCMPS) that incorporates the 5S principles to eliminate waste and create an efficient process flow. e company also devotes 13 percent of its 800 employees to R&D.; YCM's i-Direct production line monitoring system is :: The Feeler plant of FFG has two floors of manufacturing, with the upper floor handling machines less than 5 tons, such as turning centers and VMCs. The plant has capacity for 150 machines per month. designed to overcome the limitations of time and distance by providing plant operators with instant production status, including production value, output, standby, alarm time, status display, and malfunction records of each machine. When incidents occur, the system will automati- cally warn plant operators through email or text message, and the data can be browsed online and printed. YCM has more than 50 sales and service locations around the world, including CNC Systems in Tustin, California. Quaser Its name was established from the principles the company was built on: quality and service. Quaser Machine Tools Inc. was founded in 1991 and supplies VMCs, HMCs, five-axis mill-turns, pallet systems and flexible manufacturing cells. e majority of its market distribution (generally 60-80 percent) is in Europe, with generally less than 10 percent in the U.S. (handled through Quaser America Machine Tools in Rock Hill, South Carolina). e factory in Taichung produces about 700 machines per year. As a quality standard, each machine must pass a 48-hour, non-stop running test, with any failure requiring the time to be reset. productionmachining.com :: 31 SPECIAL REPORT

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