Super Precision & Productivity Magazine - Volume 2, Issue 2 - (Page 14)

As an example of the precision results obtained on the Hauser, Jones explained, “We machine tooling and dies for several razor companies that make components, and we’re trimming materials that are 0.0008”. When we get down to materials that thin, our punch-to-die clearance may become less than 0.0001”. If you want your die clearance to be 0.0001” or less, then you need your positional tolerance to be 0.000040” or 0.000050”. When we get into materials that thin, we manufacture the components to the closest tolerance we can to make sure that the dies have perfect alignment and will run well once put together. If you don’t have the alignment just right, you either have chipping or premature wearing. The alignment in the die business is extremely crucial. is so diversified, that he can look out over the enterprise and see the impact of technology on this area, then on another area, then yet again on another area. “As these advancing technologies are changing, they’re definitely putting more pressure on having good programmers,” he says. “When the toolmaker was making everything by hand, you needed a toolmaker with manual finesse. Now, the education of the toolmaker has to follow the technology. In today’s industry, a good programmer is as valuable as an experienced toolmaker. Because you need to capitalize on your investment in new technology.” this chAnges everything running unAttended “Programming expertise is becoming more invaluable as technologies have a higher and higher degree of sophistication,” Jones says. “For instance, this weekend the operator worked from lunch on Friday to about 4:00PM programming a couple of parts. He hit the start button and the machine ran until about 6:00 PM on Sunday, about 36 hours unattended.” Jones says his programmer will work approximately a quarter of the day programming and doing setup, and the remainder of the day and most of the evening the machine is running on its own. “But there are a number of machines that should be able to run around the clock” Jones says — “good EDMs and a lot of CNC equipment. If you’re a good programmer, you should expect the machine to run around the clock. If you can’t, you’ve got the wrong machine. And that’s a shame, because you’ve spent all this money, you’ve got a good programmer, but the machine’s just not sufficiently rigid or accurate to run unattended.” Advances in technology change entire paradigms, Jones reflects. Not usually in a sweeping way, but in pockets, here and there. He says he’s got a particularly unique viewpoint on technology impact. Penn United Jones says that the Hauser has changed everything of the company’s day-to-day operation. Everything his jig-grinding operators have been trained in for the past 25 to 30 years is now open to reevaluation. Hauser has taken all that and rethought it. Much of the knowledge that his operators gained thus far in their careers has just been flipped 180°, resulting in a totally new way of jig grinding and thinking about jig grinding. Jones: “The Hauser has completely changed in a very short time how we do things in the department and, actually, in a few of the related departments. We were talking about some of the wire EDMs, and we’ve changed some of the EDM jobs to the Hauser. We’re seeing the impact the Hauser is ushering in, because we keep learning more and more of its capabilities and are more and more impressed every day.” Jones has only positive comments on the service he’s gotten from Hardinge. “You’ve got to keep in mind that this was a show machine, and it had everything on it, and as you might imagine, there were a few glitches at first, primarily software. And their customer service — I was hoping to get service like this, but I wasn’t expecting it to be this good. They would drive someone down the minute I called Elmira. Twice they did that, and it’s a five-hour ride for them. They’d get here, 14 www.hardinge.com http://www.hardinge.com

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Super Precision & Productivity Magazine - Volume 2, Issue 2

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