Single-purpose pressing, drilling, assembly and checking stations, designed around one component and one cycle time.
A special-purpose machine does one job for one component. It is worth building when a standard machine is either too slow, too manual or too imprecise for the volume you are running — typically where an operation is repeated thousands of times and consistency matters more than flexibility.
We build SPMs where a standard machine cannot do the operation economically: single-purpose assembly, pressing, drilling or checking stations designed around the part, the cycle time and the operator who has to run it all day.
What we build
Specification
| Structure | Fabricated and stress-relieved, with ground mounting faces |
|---|---|
| Scope | One operation on one component family, not a general-purpose machine |
| Cycle time | Agreed at concept and demonstrated at trial |
| Operator interface | Specified by you at enquiry and confirmed at design approval |
| Handover | Assembled and trial run before despatch |
Process
Questions
A special-purpose machine does one job for one component. It is worth building when a standard machine is either too slow, too manual or too imprecise for the volume you are running — typically where an operation is repeated thousands of times and consistency matters more than flexibility.
The operation, the component drawing, the cycle time you need and the volume you are running. The operator interface matters too — a machine a trained setter runs is a different machine from one an operator loads every twenty seconds.
Yes. The machine is assembled and run against your component before despatch, so the cycle time agreed at concept is a figure you have seen rather than one you have been promised.
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