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Precision Machining
2025
Machining centre
Lights-out machining for aluminium housings
Two milling centres and a pallet store now run the night shift alone, with in-process gauging that corrects tool wear before parts drift.
Client
Orrin Precision Works
Duration
16 weeks
Scope
Machine tending · Gauging · Scheduling
3 shifts
with no operator at night
+41%
spindle utilisation
±0.01 mm
held by in-process gauging
The challenge
Order books were full but the machines stood still from ten at night until six in the morning.
What we built
A robot that tends two machining centres from a twelve-pallet store, a touch probe cycle after every critical feature and a simple scheduler that queues jobs by due date.
- Automatic tool-wear offsets from probe results
- Remote alerts to the on-call machinist
- Chip management sized for eight unattended hours
Results
Night shifts now produce a full day's worth of housings, with scrap below the daytime average.
Project data
Client
Orrin Precision Works
Sector
Precision Machining
Location
Machining centre
Year
2025
Duration
16 weeks
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