Machine tool companies are expanding capabilities to better accommodate the changing face of manufacturing. Customers want smaller-sized equipment to take up less valuable floor space, multifunctional machines that can handle a variety of operations and easy set-up changes that offer simplified operation and maintenance.
Higher productivity, faster setup times and single unattended operations are just a few of the capabilities gear manufacturers seek in the multifunctional machine tool market.
In this article, gear buyers have been given an opportunity to discuss quality, value, customer service and how gear manufacturers can improve business practices.
It’s happened to most manufacturers at one point or another. A defective
product comes back from a customer in
need of repair. Perhaps a bearing or a
gear drive has failed, and the customer
simply needs a replacement. Upon further
examination, the company realizes it was never one of its products in the
first place, but a fabricated copy that
snuck into the market. The manufacturing
community has been dealing with
counterfeit products for decades, but
used machinery dealers and Internet
shoppers seem to continuously get hit
by scam artists.
Two high-volume gear production cells grace the shop floor at Delta Research Corporation in Livonia, Michigan. Thanks to lean manufacturing, these cells have never shipped a defective part to a customer since they were developed over three years ago.