The challenge to Anebon Metal Co, Ltd is to meet demand for increasingly complex parts produced in shorter production runs, often in families of parts for the automotive, aerospace, hydraulics, medical device, energy and electronics industries as well as general engineering. The machine tools include a long list of Swiss-style sliding headstock and fixed headstock automatic CNC lathes with bar-fed automation, CNC multi-slide and live tool mill/turn machines, multi-spindle, multi-slide CNC screw machines, CNC rotary, and linear transfer machines, and increasingly robot-fed CNC milling and mill-turn machines.
Today’s precision machined parts wouldn’t meet the standards of precision machining applications without considerable attention being paid to parts cleaning, coolants, tooling, workholding, and programming software. Topics at the technical conference ranged from safety in shop operations, becoming proof against ransomware to maxing production performance on Swiss automatics with the right tooling and employing the latest techniques in deburring and parts finishing with honing and lapping.