The 2,000 m2 facility is split into two levels. The centre’s ground floor comprises a large and flexible central machining zone where four CNC machine tools from DMG Mori and a CMM from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence are located. On the first floor, dedicated to CADCAM, simulation and 3D printing, it’s a similar story with CNC simulators for Heidenhain, Siemens and Mitsubishi control systems training, and facilities for SolidWorks and SolidCAM training.
Downstairs, it has invested in a DMU 50 5-axis machining centre with Heidenhain control, an NLX 1500 SY turning centre with Mitsubishi control and CELOS CNC interface, an ecoMill 600V vertical machining centre with Siemens control, an ecoTurn 450 turning centre with Mitsubishi control and a UNO 20|40 tool presetter.
Also involved is Jemtech UK along with Jemtech’s new high-technology company, Oracle Fluid Management Systems. Since the building was handed over in late December, they have been contracted to supply and install high-performance Blaser Swisslube metal working fluids and an Oracle fluid management unit. Vasco 7000 – an aerospace approved, high-performance vegetable ester-based cutting fluid – is the fluid of choice. The contract includes regular metalworking fluid maintenance as well as its supply.
The NLX 1500 SY turning centre, the first DMG Mori machine at the site, is linked to an Oracle fluid management system. Developed at the MTC over a two year period, the system was launched last year. It monitors and adjusts, in real time, the volume, sump level and condition (such as concentration and pH levels) of a cutting fluid in a machine tool’s sump, as well as capturing and recording data on a fluid’s condition and on any adjustments that have been made.
Comments Will Allanson: “We invested in an Oracle fluid management system - not for Oracle’s automatic (sump) topping-up capabilities - but more for the system’s condition monitoring and data capture, recording and reporting facilities. Oracle fluid management systems represent Industry 4.0 technology…and, as such, it’s vital that our students know about and have access to these latest technology trends.”
In addition to training students and equipping them with high level skills to meet the requirements of local employers, HAMEC will ‘open up’ its facilities to manufacturers enabling them to develop new products and improve existing processes, as well as providing them with extra manufacturing capacity.
