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The contract manufacturer LIDU Maschinenbau Lienenbrügger GmbH in Dülmen, north-west Germany, reduces its throughput times, increases its flexibility and process reliability in production with a streamlined tool organization, »venturion« presetting and measuring machines and the TMS Tool Management Solutions tool data management system from ZOLLER.
This variety of workpieces and machines naturally requires an almost unmanageable number of different drilling, boring, turning, milling and reaming tools. As Benedict Dammann notes, up to 50 tools need to be prepared, measured, adjusted and set up for each workpiece. For example, there are up to 120 different tools in the tool magazine of the automated machining center with pallet station. In order to set and measure this large number of tools reliably and accurately, LIDU invested in a »venturion« series presetting and measuring machine from ZOLLER over ten years ago, on which mainly rotationally symmetrical tools such as drills and milling cutters for the machining centers are measured and set.
The presetting and measuring machine proved its worth within a short space of time. "As turning tools of any design can also be measured and set just as easily and conveniently on the ZOLLER machines, we decided to purchase a second ZOLLER »venturion 600« presetting and measuring machine back in 2015." This means that even exotic tools, such as long cantilevered angle heads for driven tools, can be set and measured with ease.
Benedict Dammann emphasizes the advantages: "The ZOLLER operating concept with touchscreen and pictograms meets our requirements exactly. The system guides us quickly and intuitively through the process of measuring and setting the tools."
"When it came to selecting a suitable software system, the features and benefits of the ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions software convinced us all round," say Thomas Lorrek and Benedict Dammann. As they continue, the software needed to be as consistent as possible, match the existing presetting and measuring machines, be easy and convenient to use and expandable. "At ZOLLER, we found exactly the right system for our requirements with the TMS Tool Management Solutions tool data management system.
It is particularly advantageous that all affected areas in production work with the same user interface: the AV with CAM programming, tool preparation, the tool store and the setters and operators at the machining centers. That was one of the decisive reasons for choosing ZOLLER TMS," reports Thomas Lorrek. In order to make further advantages of the ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions software flexibly usable at all workstations, LIDU has installed freely movable tablets with data connection via WLAN.
"In order to benefit from similar advantages, we also intend to manage the measuring and inspection equipment with the TMS Tool Management Solutions software system from ZOLLER," says Benedict Dammann. This digitalization with software systems from ZOLLER makes a decisive contribution to significantly more flexible and economical production and also improves process reliability. Frank Schaefer summarizes: "Using these advantages is a key criterion for continuing to manufacture in Germany in the future and being internationally competitive. ZOLLER is clearly the right partner with regard to our further objectives."
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