MIDACO Blog: ebaran

“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...

“Here we have a third pallet that we run in a VF-2 (Haas), and we have a Manual Pallet Changer where we run two pallets during the day and we run two shifts total. At the end of the second shift they throw this pallet in there. We utilize our lights out time and this pallet runs for about two ho...

“We built this facility in 2004 and have out grown it already. The beautiful thing about this machine with the pallet changer is we can put two DM-1’s with Midaco pallet changers in the place of one of our VF-4’s and get twice the production out of these two machines face to face. That’s the gre...

In search of cost-effective productivity improvements, Landis Machine Shop President Mark Lewkowicz looks for small, inexpensive measures to upgrade the equipment he already owns. Recently, he upgraded an upgrade. An automatic pallet changer had been added to a vertical machining center to reduc...

If you’re contracted to deliver large quantities of identical components for a very well-known name in the earthmoving vehicle sector, you’d better make sure you have a fast, reliable, and repeatable manufacturing setup. National Technologies Inc. makes precision parts for Caterpillar using a fleet...