Case Study – How to dominate your niche with the best quality, schedule and cost when deploying this coolant delivery system for drilling
HOW TO DOMINATE YOUR NICHE WITH THE BEST QUALITY, SCHEDULE AND COST WHEN DEPLOYING THIS COOLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR DRILLING
Often, plasma cutting is the first process deployed to fabricate steel into the variety of products we see used in the steel industry. Every plasma & oxy-cutting machine creates a dross on the underside of the plate from the thermal cutting process that needs to be removed before the steel can be used.
Any steel serviced centre supplying price-sensitive plasma cutting/drilling parts to a competitive market understands the man-hours required to deburr parts before these parts are fabricated, welded, painted or galvanised. The market requires a steel service centre to deburr plasma/oxy cut parts so they pass a client’s QA/QC standard. All the parts need to be deburred for safety to avoid any injuries when handling the plasma or oxy cut parts.
Any steel service centre is aware of the space required for deburring bays, the amount of deburring discs and man-hours that are allocated every year to deburr each part. When a steel service centre or fabricator has a requirement to deburr and improve a delivery schedule they can discuss, with us, our portfolio of automated deburring machines.
Plasma cutting machines that have high pressure through spindle coolant or flood coolant will create challenges for automating deburring. Unless the parts are dry and clean they may not be suitable to be run through a deburring machine. It will be unlikely that a machine tool builder or agent will allow your business to return any deburring machine after making an incorrect purchasing decision. It is worth remembering that you do not put lubricant on a file!
Unfortunately, not everyone can qualify as a client for an automated deburring machine. If a business has commissioned a water table that has 5% cutting fluid used for drilling, parts from this style of wettable plasma cutting machinery from Specialist Machinery Sales competitors are always dirty and oily. Specialist Machinery has an automated deburring machine that washes and drys parts up to 300kg before deburring and edge rounding can be automated. Investing in a plasma cutting machine that has drilling with the Minimum Quantity Lubricant (MQL) would avoid 5% of cutting fluid being in a wet bed cutting table so the parts would be easier and more cost-effective to deburr automatically.
Clients of SMS in 2016 who invest in plasma cutting and drilling with extra machining capacity can automate deburring parts without having to clean or dry the oil from the parts. The MQL is a state of the art method of providing atomised lubricant combined with high-pressure air through the spindle and the tool departing at the cutting tip. The lubricant is supplied at less than 50 millilitres/hour while the air at 100 psi and flows up to 1,500 litres/minute blasts swarf out of the hole.
Competitive tension on a price-sensitive part will ensure clients of Specialist Machinery Sales will continue to innovate and automate their processes. A sensible automation strategy is to invest in machines that are compatible with each other. This flexibility allows a business to improve its cost and schedule so it is practical to win more and do more which is what a steel service centre is all about – cost and schedule!
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