AFAB Adds Capacity and Efficiency with Flexible Manufacturing System

The team at AFAB Precision Machining discusses how it increased capacity and invested in just-in-time production capabilities to meet the production requirements and price pressures of its customers. By adding a Makino a51nx horizontal machining center with a 12-pallet MMC2 flexible manufacturing system, it has been able to cut cycle times in half, while achieving 100 percent utilization rates, or 22-plus hours of production each day. AFAB elaborates on the simple turnkey integration of the flexible manufacturing system, and how it is regularly achieving critical tolerances of 0.0002 inch in its medical part requirements.