explained to the customer how they could make the part in a single operation, maintain the required surface finish in only key needed areas, and stay well within the customer’s price point while leaving LCP a comfortable profit margin. “The QTN 350-II MSY completes a sonar part in minutes as opposed to hours and reduces the production cost by almost 90%,” said Lafferty. “We simplified the design, which then made machining it much easier and faster and less expensive and allowed us to pass savings down to the customer.”
Shop Finetunes Cutting, Partners Support Process When Northstar Aerospace (Char- lotte, NC) purchased a new Okuma Multus B750 horizontal lathe through Morris Midwest to increase production efficiencies, it gained access to more than just advanced technology critical support for manufacturing helicopter transmission components. Not only is the B750 capable of easily handling critical tolerances machining aerospace parts, but Northstar also discovered efficiencies could be improved by fine- tuning cutting processes and using technologies developed by Okuma’s Partners in THINC members.
“Shops have to be aggressive and willing to acquire the right equipment that will not only win the work price wise, but ensure a reasonable profit as well.”
At Northstar, the Multus B750 utilizes its latest in CNC machine technologies to maintain tight tolerances when cut- ting transmission parts on heat-treated material (Rc
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Avoidance Software (CAS), standard on the Multus, also aids in increasing shop-floor efficiencies by integrating 3D modeling of the Okuma machine, tooling, and part blanks with the OSP– P control. This creates a virtual machine that runs real-time
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