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MW400
Heavy duty, high speed disk rotor machining
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Training Schedule
Machine Maintenance
May 19-20, 2009 or
Machine Set-Up & Programming
July 14-16, 2009 or
Oct. 20-22, 2009
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Greetings!
Welcome to Murata Machinery's first customer newsletter.
One of Muratec's corporate goals is to leave a rich environment for future generations. Not only are we committted to offering products to meet today's needs and new products to exceed tomorrow's expectations, our goal is product development that stresses reduction of the environmental burden at each stage of a product's life cycle. |
MW400G - A Solution for Brenco, Inc.
Faced with a bottleneck in its turning operation, Brenco - a manufacturer of tapered bearings for railcars - invested in automated, twin-spindle CNC chuckers.
In addition to increasing productivity and improving safety, moving from manual to automated turning freed workers for reassignment to other tasks throughout the plant.
The company decided to invest in seven MW400 machines from Murata Machinery USA. To read the entire article from Modern Machine Shop, please Click Here. For MW400 specifications, Click Here. | |
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Let Murata Help Carry Load of the Economic Crisis
To do this, we are rolling back our service and application support prices to our 1990's level.
Support Current Rate Promotional Rate
Service Rate $ 120 / hour $ 100 / hour
Travel Time Rate $ 75 / hour $ 55 / hour
OT Rate (after 8 hrs.) $ 180 / hour $ 150 / hour
Weekends & Holidays $ 260 / hour $ 200 / hour
Meals Per Diem $ 50 / day $ 42 / day
Mileage Expense $ .59 / mile $ .55 / mile
Min. Applications Charge $ 480 / visit $ 400 / visit
Now may be the time to perform preventive maintenance that was not possible in busier times but will keep your equipment performing in top condition when the economy rebounds.
To take advantage of this opportunity to have Muratec trained and certified engineers service your equipment at reduced rates, contact Gary Smith, Technical Services Manager, at gsmith@muratec-usa.com. This is a limited time offer. |
TechTips
Rechucking Stations
By David Smith, Service Engineer-Trainer
Problem: Sometimes during the normal part cycle process, you may experience problems with parts loading crooked, uneven or loading with "runout" issues.
Solution: Rechucking Stations
Rechucking Stations: Rechucking stations are custom-made, part-leveling stations that are used when the ordinary process of picking up parts from a load station are not level or even. They are primarily used on large castings that when stacked are uneven and will not load correctly. However, they are not limited to large castings.
Any time it is critical that parts be loaded evenly, rechucking stations are a great tool. They are usually designed as a three-point leveling system consisting of a base plate that attaches the station to the machine, a leveling plate attached to the base plate, and a three-point leveling system attached to the leveling plate that can be adjusted up and down to seat the parts correctly.
How the process works: The gantry comes over and picks up the part as normal, but instead of taking it to the machine for loading, the gantry takes it to the rechuck station. It drops the part into the station, releases the part in order to allow the station to level it, regrips the part, removes the part from the station, and takes it to the machine for loading. It is a simple, yet extremely effective way to level a part for loading.
How they are made: Murata rechuck stations are custom engineered in-house by our design team, fabricated and machined by our well-trained fabricators, and installed and setup by our applications team. They are usually made of cold-rolled steel, but depending on the process, can be made from most any material the customer requests.
To see examples, pictures and more information about rechucking stations, click here. | |
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