Huron preci 5-axis machining center

EDITORIAL Marc Troia, passionate about and value-added choices when specifying their needs and defining a mechanics, took over the management of HURON GRAFFENSTAOEN on January 1, 2019. His professional background gives him significant experience in business management, and his passions legitimize his knowledge of the machine tool construction business. The Editorial Board asked Marc Troia about the strategy he is implementing for the development of HURON GRAFFENSTAOEN.

Process / Feasibility studies The customer relationship begins with the expression of its needs, and, if necessary, with a validation of performance or feasibility. In this context, HURON GRAFFENSTAOEN has been enriched with new resources in machining processes, feasibility, and performance. This reinforced team will determine the best process solutions and then qualify its choices through feasibility studies.

New Customer Service organization Need for reactivity in terms of machine deliveries Commissioning of machines: To reduce machine commissioning times during installation, we are strengthening the team dedicated to commissioning, acceptance, and the starting-up of production as soon as possible. Hotline: The Hotline is in charge of the life of machines in production and becomes the main maintenance contact for production workshops. In addition to their technical expertise, the Hotliners are responsible for planning after-sales service and providing spare parts. Relying on a new computerized tool for tracking requests and interventions, Customer Service is able to monitor the resolution of complex problems, particularly on machines made up of older generation equipment. Remote diagnosis: Remote diagnosis improves the pertinence of diagnoses and helps to solve a problem quickly and by phone. This service is based on a wide range of tools available. Retrofit / Upgrade of machines: HURON GRAFFENSTAOEN, through the proximity of its design, production, and Customer Service departments and thanks to its local partnerships, can propose machine retrofit projects, on the mechanical part but also on the numeric control unit. Maintenance agreement: Some customers prefer to focus on their production and they choose to outsource their maintenance 

The configuration of the historic factory in limits the offers a complete range of maintenance contracts capacity of large machines to 4 to 5 machines built in parallel. The preventive, conditional preventive, corrective, and curative, as well being completed will increase this limit to 10 machines in parable ability contracts based on connectivity technologies. Thanks to a much higher height and capacity of the handling bridges. Training: Skills are often difficult to find, sometimes difficult to maintain. A new automated warehouse for spare parts and production parts will to ensure that customers remain the most efficient, streamlines manufacturing processes and optimizes the surface area for has completed the catalog of training courses machine production. In addition to the traditional training in the use of machines, this new industrial facility, with its fully air-conditioned we offer training in operation or programming on numerical control workshop, will make it possible to reduce manufacturing times and as well as training in the machining process. Deliver machines built on demand within controlled deadlines.

NEW RANGE OF PERFORMANCE AND OPERATIONAL SECURITY NEW RANGE OF PALLETIZED MACHINES SOFTWARE To meet productivity needs and sometimes also the lack of qualified personnel, extends the range of a range of productivity software - for adaptive roughing, for automatic axis calibration, Thus the entire range of 3, 4 or 5 axes machining centers is now.

For automatic tool management, PRECiBALANCE for mi11-turn, available with an automation solution, by integrated 2 pallet change, balance detection on MX - has been extended in terms of integrated multiple palletizer, or, depending on the models, by Cartteio- safety and industrial performance with PRECIPROTECT, or polyarticulated robot for loading/unloading pallets or parts. which eliminates the risk of collision, compatible with the entire 5-axis The large machining centers are now all compatible with external machine range. pallet changers/FMS systems, and the mechanical and automation architectures have been optimized to this end. PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL OF THE OEE Our latest innovation is the creation of a supervision tool for a machine NEW RANGE OF SUBASSEMBLIES AND ACCESSORIES of a workshop: P SENS. This tool captures and measures the technical With the triple objective of reducing delivery times, reducing costs, parameters of each machine, or a fleet of machines. It is dedicated improving reliability, HURON GRAFFENSTAOEN has undertaken an approach of modularization and standardization: modularization of to toolholders and preventive maintenance, but also promotes predic- machine frames, internalization of the production of all 5-axis heads tion. For the Production Department, this tool makes it possible to know the commitment rate of the machine fleet and the and electrospindles, concentration of the tool changer range, stan-progress of planned production; it allows for better planning and the dardization of devices such as cooling tanks, chip conveyors, filter fulfillment of commitments. devices, etc. These means facilitate design and allow production Finally, as a global production management tool, it automatically quickly as possible, while improving maintainability. measures and classifies the production OEE Overall Equipment Efficiency in order to optimize and improve it. This moduIarization will reduce machine design times as well as pre-project times - costing. This will allow customers to focus on Top tour software solutions are now compatible with the entire range of HURON machines. our DNA.