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He concludes: “As demand for these pumps is
continually rising, nding more ef cient ways of
manufacture is imperative. The reduction in set-up time
from as much as 15 hours to one is a big game-changer
with the Spinner, as is the elimination of work-inprogress.
“The process has lowered the economic batch size
and is helping not only to increase exibility of
production but also to reduce the cost. Also, by handling
the parts fewer times, there is less risk of scrap. The
customers also bene t, as they are able to reduce
stocks levels.
“The ability of Whitehouse to turnkey this installation
successfully has given us a path to expansion that was
dif cult to see before. We were out of space and out of
power here in Hailsham and the high cost of relocation
was not an option.
“The Spinner U-620, requiring half the oor space of
an HMC and one-third of the power yet delivering the
same quality of parts four times faster, has been a seachange
for us.”
Doosan DVF 5000 5-axis
machining centre delivers
multiple bene ts for Baker
Engineering
Signifi cantly reduced machining operations leading to
reduced part cycle times, improved operational
effi ciencies and new business wins are just some of
the benefi ts Baker Engineering is experiencing with its
latest Doosan 5-axis machine tool investment.
Mills CNC ( www.is.gd/ugoyob ), the exclusive
distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and
Ireland, has recently supplied the company, a leading
precision toolmaker and engineering subcontract
specialist based in Derby, with a new, high performance
Doosan DVF 5000 5-axis machining centre (625 by 450
by 400 mm in X, Y and Z; 500 by 450 mm work table,
400 kg table load).
The machine was installed at the company’s new,
purpose-built 8,000 ft2 facility in April 2020 and is being
used to machine a diverse range of high precision parts,
as well as specialist tooling, jigs and xtures for Baker’s
growing UK and international customer base.
The DVF 5000 is the company’s second Doosan
machine tool; Baker Engineering previously installed a
new DNM 6700 vertical machining centre in February
2017.
The family-owned operation employs 15, boasts
ISO 9001: 2015 accreditation and is committed to
continuous improvement, making regular investment in
latest machine tool and ancillary manufacturing
technologies to maintain competitiveness and
This Doosan DVF 5000 has delivered both
increased effi ciency and new customers
for Baker Engineering
strengthen its preferred partner relationships with its
customers. The rm’s machine tool complement
includes machining centres with integrated fourth-axis
units, lathes with bar feeders and wire EDM machines.
Apart from precision subcontract machining services,
the company also has speci c strengths in
manufacturing aerospace component tooling (i.e. jigs
and xtures for ground support maintenance), tooling for
the measurement and inspection of railway tracks and
tooling used in the power generation sector.
The decision to invest in 5-axis machining technology
was a natural one for Baker Engineering to make and
had begun, in earnest, earlier in 2019. Explains director
Adrian Baker: “Multi-axis and multi-tasking machine
tools help manufacturers improve their productivity.
Because we are a company that’s looking to constantly
improve, we had done our homework into the technology
and could see that an investment in a 5-axis machine
tool would deliver signi cant performance bene ts.
“In addition, the investment would send the right
signals, externally and internally, that Baker Engineering
was focused on the future.”
Key advantages anticipated by investing in 5-axis
machine tool technology were immediately apparent to
management and staff at the company and included: the
ability to machine complex shapes/parts in a single
set-up; the added bene t that ‘one-hit’ machining has
on reducing the time to procure, and costs associated
with, xturing; plus the ability to improve/maintain part
accuracies, owing to a reduction in work handling.
“Since the DVF 5000 machine’s installation, we have
experienced all of these bene ts,” adds Baker.
In one example that demonstrates the bene ts,
an electrical-housing-type component was originally
machined in ve separate machining operations taking
2.5 hours. When machined on the DVF 5000, the
number of operations is reduced to two and the cycle
time is 0.75 hours.
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