“… Midaco will be happy to fly a technician to your site,
cut a big hole in the end of a VMC and bolt on a shiny new pallet changer. The
result is a device that can automatically swap an entire machine table’s worth
of parts in a few seconds via an M code sent by the control. This frees the
operator to tend to other equipment, check parts prepare the next job or load
the next pallet. And increasing spindle time by just 1 hour per day at a $75
hourly shop rate means a 2-year return on investment. But as Cayley pointed
out, many shops see ROI much faster than that by eliminating several hours of
daily downtime, depending on the application.”
Author Kip Hanson, Contributing Editor
Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine, August 2014
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