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The Okuma MB-400H is a beast of a production machine. With a 12 pallet Fastems system and 218 tools, it does some of its best work while everyone is fast asleep.
looking for a job have experience running a Haas. They are by no means perfect, but if you look around this shop youwillseeIamafan.WerunthehelloutofourHaas machining centers, but when it comes to 24/7 production my Okuma MB-400H and Doosan DVF 500 are called into action.”
RC Industries added the Okuma MB-400 at the end of 2016. With a 12 pallet Fastems system, the Okuma is designed for lights out production running. “Our Okuma has 218 tools, and we regularly have 20 part numbers set up and ready to go when the customer needs them,” explains Rob. “It knows everything and will go from job to job-to-job 24/7. For example, the throttle housing I showed you earlier takes seven hours to machine. The
rudder pedals are three hours for both, and the throttle levers take about two hours. Adds up to 12 hours of spindle time overnight. Come back the next morning and those parts are ready to go. Making money while we sleep. With 12 pallets we have the versatility needed to keep regularly scheduled jobs setup on deck and still have room to mount and machine whatever we need that isn’t in the normal rotation. It has a ton of HP, a fast spindle, and really is a great machine that we trust to run and run. It opened our eyes to the possibilities of palletized lights out manufacturing.”
RC Industries newest machining center is a 5 axis Doosan DVF 500 with 8 pallets. It was installed by Ellison Technologies and even during a global pandemic has
quickly become a shop favorite. “Like on the Okuma, we tend to machine shorter runs during the day when employees are around to reload pallets,” tells Rob. “By the time the afternoon is here we are all set for overnight lights out manufacturing. The Doosan DVF 500 is a fast and accurate machine. We got it just before Covid in December 2019, and unfortunately with airline sales grinding to a halt I haven’t been able to utilize it at full capacity. Looking at sales orders, we are beginning to ramp production back up, and I expect it to be near capacity by the beginning of the year. I chose the Doosan DVF 500 for price, pallet system, number of tools, and the physical footprint.” RC Industries are overloaded with machines in their primary manufacturing building and have already began arranging machining centers in the
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