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Software Elevates
CNC Punching Productivity
High-speed automated punching can be among the most profitable processes a sheetmetal fabricator performs, provided operators spend their time shaking out parts rather than changing tools. That’s how T Top Mfg. increased press efficiency by 40 percent, with the help of new scheduling software.
BY BRAD F. KUVIN, EDITOR
Here’s an easy question for your production manager(s) to answer:
Would you rather have turret-press operators making and shaking out parts, or watching the presses sit idle while operators change-out tools?
That’s the question that the pro- duction managers of job-shop metal fabricator T Top Mfg. had on their minds when they toured the FABTECH
The Motorum 2558 turret press at T Top Mfg. is equipped with a model F1G-1500 5- by 10-ft. automated load-unload system.
54 MetalForming/April 2013
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