An article by Kenneth Carter in Gear Solutions magazine poses an interesting dilemma facing Gear Manufacturers working with older machinery.
Do you swallow the expense of investing in replacing older CNC machinery or fall back in terms of productivity, reliability and quality risking damaging your organisation’s competitive edge?
It’s a difficult choice and needs to be judged correctly to ensure you replace the machine at the optimum time.
However, there is a solution that offers a way between the stark choice of old or new.
Machine Tool Builders (MTB) offer such an alternative being a leading machine rebuilder. They have evolved over three decades to offer gear manufacturers the choice of rebuilding a machine or re-controlling it with the latest software replacing obsolete software.
They rebuild and re-control any CNC machine – hobbing, shaping and form grinding. In fact, Ronson Gears used MTB to retrofit a Fellows Shaper some time ago – and we are pleased to say that it is still going strong!
Where a rebuild doesn’t make economic sense, MTB has begun to represent a great variety of OEMs offering machinery at the most competitive prices. So all your bases are covered!
So, investing in new machinery shouldn’t necessarily be your first port of call. MTB cover all the choices so you know you have made the best decision. For the full article and more detail on their services see the link here.