A new vertical machining centre will help Adhoc Engineering increase its machining capacity and strengthen its position within its customers’ supply chains.
The machine, a DNM 4500 supplied by Mill CNC has been installed next to three other Doosan machines acquired by the company over the last nine years.
The new machining centre is being used to produce a range of high precision components and families of parts such as housings, enclosures, flanges, valves and actuators for proprietary flow meter and scientific instrumentation products, designed in-house by the company.
Parts machined on the new DNM 4500 are typically made from solid aluminium, mild steel and stainless steel bar and billets and are machined in a range of batch sizes using advanced work-holding and fixtures that include pallets and tombstones.
Part tolerances are tight but not excessively so, with the main machining requirements being consistency, repeatability and fast processing speeds.
With demand growing for its design, machining and assembly services, the company made the decision, back in 2022, to improve its milling capacity and capabilities. Two, older machines were creating production pinch points that were affecting throughput and output so the decision was made to replace both with a new, higher specification machining centre.
John Watts, owner and director, said: “We provide comprehensive, high-quality machining services to customers and are a vital cog in their process chains. As such, we need to be able to anticipate and respond quickly to their changing production requirements.
“In order to maintain these supply chain relationships, we needed to strengthen our in-house milling capabilities by investing in a reliable, high-performance production-oriented machine that would meet our, and our customers, immediate and future requirements.”
The DNM 4500 is equipped with an 18.5kW/ 12,000rpm (BT 40) direct-drive spindle, a 30-tool position ATC, a large worktable (1000mm x 450mm) with a 600kg maximum load, and features the advanced Fanuc 0iMP control with a 15” touchscreen iHMI
John Watts concluded: “We needed a fast, accurate and competitively-priced machining centre, and with the DNM 4500, that’s exactly what we have got.”
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