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. 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 production managers of job-shop metal fabricator T Top Mfg. had on their minds when they toured the FABTECH trade show in Las Vegas last fall. The company, which works out of a 55,000-sq.-ft. shop in Bridgeport, TX, found the answer to the rhetorical question when it spied on the FABTECH show floor new Campath TRM+ programming software from Murata Machinery, Charlotte, NC.
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