EDM
if we had room for both, we would have kept it. When it came to picking a machine, we didn’t review the market as we knew that Mitsubishi was the best fit for our business. We did our due diligence when we bought the Mitsubishi BA8, moving from another brand to Mitsubishi. After a decade of highly productive precision machining with the BA8 - we have complete confidence in the Mitsubishi brand. Furthermore, we have familiarity with the Mitsubishi platform and transferring all our programs to the new machine was a seamless exercise.” The installation of the new Mitsubishi MV1200S and its commissioning proved a stress-free transition with minimum disruption to Precision Engineering Services. As Chris continues: “Migrating our programs to the new machine was very easy. We could either edit the NC files on the machine control or we could run the programs through our EdgeCAM software, delete our old power files, select new processing
parameters and re-run through the post- processors. This meant it only took five minutes to alter each of our legacy programs whenever a repeat job arrived.” With the majority of programming done offline in the office with EdgeCAM, Precision Engineering Services is yet to yield the full benefits of programming on the Mitsubishi control system. As Chris continues: “Whilst our programming is still completed offline, there is a huge difference with the new Mitsubishi control panel, as it has the new intelligent D-CUBES control. The large touchscreen control is user- friendly and intuitive, and we now spend less time scrolling through option menus – everything is right there on the screen. The PC is also far more powerful and faster. The previous BA8 machine could take 15 to 20 minutes to set up for every different process, the MV1200S takes less than 10 minutes. This 5 to 10-minute saving may be small, but if you have to re-set the machine
Machinery & Manufacturing 31
Powered by FlippingBook