MIDACO Blog: ebaran

Machine: MIDACO ADM-1SD on a HAAS DM-1 Company: Swiss Precision Machining, Inc. Wheeling, IL ph: (847) 647-7111   www.spmswiss.com Swiss Precision Machining, Inc. started out as a small job shop over 30 years ago with just two Swiss-style cam machines. Over the years, SPM has gr...

“A manual pallet changer is really great for setup time reduction,” said Midaco’s Munao. “By dedicating pallets for different job situations, you can eliminate a lot of redundancies—whether it’s vices or tablework or whatever the customer is doing on a daily basis, they can have pallets dedicated to...

“… Midaco will be happy to fly a technician to your site, cut a big hole in the end of a VMC and bolt on a shiny new pallet changer. The result is a device that can automatically swap an entire machine table’s worth of parts in a few seconds via an M code sent by the control. This frees the operator...

Clipper Industries in Itasca, Illinois adds a MIDACO A6040SD Pallet System and HAAS VF8 Machining Center, reducing their cost per part 30-50%, and slashing process lead-time over 75% from 3-4 weeks down to 3-4 days. "The fact that the system automatically exchanges pallets in less than 30 seconds wi...

"MIDACO's automatic pallet system has helped me increase my production by 70 to 80%. Because I work parallel with machine and load parts while the machine center is running, I have reduced the 14 minute process time of our disc brake components to less than 5 minutes." (uses an A4020SDCE on HAAS VF...

“We have a Midaco Robot (Loader) and use it as a ‘pick and place’. The ‘pick and place’ is simply grabbing these slugs and placing them into a 5-axis rotary table. In the 5-axis rotary table, once the parts are finished, they are removed from the 5 Axis rotary table and placed in the original po...