As Jones & Shipman Hardinge UK managing director Mike Duignan explains, while filling a niche roll, SP machines are widely recognised as production machines of high calibre: “Machines in the SP and SP Quest range offer combined turning and grinding systems designed to optimise the production of complex parts. As well as their turning capability, the machines can be equipped with grinding spindles, providing the potential to maintain a continuous machining accuracy of 3 micron over extended periods of operation.”
SP models have a compact footprint and, with turnkey packages or optional automation, can operate as stand-alone single machines or within a multi-cell environment.
“These machines are a perfect complement to our established capability across the spectrum of grinding,” adds Duignan. “They allow us to offer an optimal solution for high-precision, complex parts, be it grinding, precision hard turning, or a combination of both.”
