To keep pace with customer demand FGP is always looking to best utilise and streamline use of its plant and machinery, to this end we have embarked on targeted transfer of high volume production parts to our Lufton facility.
With input from all stakeholder departments (sales, quality, production and engineering) the appropriate parts are identified as gaining the best advantage to productivity.
The Lufton facility was set up to support paralleled machining capabilities with the Weymouth facility, with this in mind transfer of selected operations is seamless even through to finished part production.
Lufton has long standing history and knowledge of turbine production on site, now with the re-introduction of turbine manufacture this history is continuing albeit with the latest lathe and milling capability on offer at this stage.
Using a Goodway GLS2800 fitted with a Hainbuch system we are able to replicate best practice from our sister site in Weymouth, safeguarding quality and reduced set and production times. Milling duties are then handed to our Hedelius Acura 65 for fixtures directly from our current turbine production machines the Acura has performed well in comparison.
We are also making best use of our three axis machining and engineering capabilities with the transition of high speed aluminium machining operations in support of our ongoing meal table programs With the use of table mounted fixture places set-up times have been kept to a minimum and allow ease of part change to keep pace with the Weymouth base automation system
Simon Griffiths-Hughes Director of Engineering FGP Systems and FGP Lufton
