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Choice’s Palletech systems—two of which are paired with 320-tool capacity Mazak Tool Hives—are modular in design and can expand along with the shop’s growing demands. The two single-level Palletech systems service the shop’s
lines of Horizontal Center Nexus (HCN) horizontal machining centers—two HCN 6800s in one cell and two HCN 580s in the other. The third system is a double-level 12-pallet stocker station configuration that serves a recently acquired Mazak Variaxis 730-5X II five-axis vertical machining center, and the shop plans to add another machine to that cell. Choice Precision loads its three Pal- letech systems with as many different jobs as possible. This not only increases efficiency for each individual job, but also allows for continuous machine operation, which is also why the shop opted for Mazak’s large capacity Tool Hive tool storage systems to accommo- date all the necessary tooling for these different jobs.
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“Typically, we’ll set up each pallet of our Palletech systems with several completely different jobs,” said Greg Willet, Choice’s general manager. “So we are running about 100–150 different jobs at the same time. Plus, we’ll keep certain job fixtures on pallets because we know the customers will want more parts in a month or so.” Even for parts
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