Most
manufacturers would not think of S. Giorgio di Piano, Italy and Buffalo
Grove, IL in the same stream of thought, except for Lighting Components
and Design, Inc., manufacturer of the Leecraft and Littelites Lines
of Miniature Lights and Assemblies. LC&D has combined the best
of the Italian and the US Mid-west wire processing capabilities to
shorten lead times for cutting, stripping and crimping wire, by purchasing
a Makfil CSC51 from Makfil System headquartered in S. Giorgio di
Piano, Italy and a Komax Gamma 333 BPC from Komax USA, headquartered
in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Most
manufacturers would not think of S. Giorgio di Piano, Italy and Buffalo
Grove, IL in the same stream of thought, except for Lighting Components
and Design, Inc., manufacturer of the Leecraft and Littelites Lines
of Miniature Lights and Assemblies. LC&D has combined the best
of the Italian and the US Mid-west wire processing capabilities to
shorten lead times for cutting, stripping and crimping wire, by purchasing
a Makfil CSC51 from Makfil System headquartered in S. Giorgio di
Piano, Italy and a Komax Gamma 333 BPC from Komax USA, headquartered
in Buffalo Grove, IL. By expanding it’s wire processing capabilities,
LCD has improved efficiency of production by controlling the lead
times and quality of its terminated wire.
Per Ty
Ramsey, VP of Performance Excellence, “Not surprisingly,
the trend in wire harness manufacturing is operational efficiency.
Most manufacturers realize that the key to higher profitability is
to use such proven concepts as Just In Time, Kanban and Lean Manufacturing
to drive down costs. The goal is to produce the right product at the
right time and in the right quantity. In wire processing, one of the
biggest influences on successful implementation of any of these concepts
is achieving the shortest possible machine setup time for production
changes.”
The
Makfil CSC 51 is an automatic machine capable of cutting, stripping
and crimping on both ends of the wire with all types of electrical
terminals including wire seals and double crimping. The special features
of the fully electronic CSC51, is that it does away with the need
for manual mechanical set-up whenever stripping parameters or wire
dimensions
change. The new concept of the cutting/stripping unit and wire handling
robots enable operators to process the wire, by simply setting the
required values on the keyboard, without having to remove, assemble
and replace the cutting/stripping blades as well as the spacers in
the blade blocks.
The machine
management, number of pieces, cutting and/or stripping length, production
batches, speed and all other functions are managed by simply
setting parameters on a keyboard of the control
panel. The machine is equipped with a double-tray collecting system,
with automatic unloading of the batch and relative restart of the
production cycle. All this allows finished product to be collected
without interfering
in hourly productivity.
LCD than
purchased the most automatic equipment of wire processing to further
upgrade their wire room with a Komax Gamma 333 automatic
wire cutting and terminating machine. This adds maximum flexibility
with its state of the art control software; The Komax Gamma can cut
a wire of 6mm length and terminate both sides at a rate of 3,600 per
hour with both sides being crimp height monitored. The Komax Gamma
333 has ultra short conversion times and a user-friendly user interface
with multiple-language capability.
Jon Cooper, President of LCD said “The Komax is a superb value
for the money, especially with its third processing station and state
of the art control software, we are assured maximum flexibility and
an even more efficient way of meeting our wire processing needs. The
Komax enables us to crimp both ends of the wire, to create double crimp
connections with three different contacts and to carry out one-ended
seal application. In addition, process monitoring is all integrated
to ensure that the wire is cut to length and stripped perfectly to
specification and that quality control is optimized. The guide tubes
can be changed without tools thanks to the quick-release system.”
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