600 Centre commissions FMS at Airbus Filton
600 Centre install and commission a four machine flexible manufacturing system (FMS) at the Airbus site at Filton near Bristol, to produce key Titanium components.
600 Centre of Shepshed has installed and commissioned a four machine flexible manufacturing system (FMS) at the Airbus site at Filton near Bristol. The project will produce key Titanium components such as pylon brackets on the wings of the A320 Airbus.
The project, under the control of 600 Centre’s recently appointed technical director David Holden, involves four Toyoda Mitsui Seiki HU80A machining centres. Two are HU80A four-axis machines and two, HU80A-5X five-axis trunnion versions.
Included in the project is a 20 pallet Fastems workhandling system with two work setting stations and tool transfer via two seven-axis robots involving a central tool store with a capacity of over 1,000 tools. The FMS also incorporates the latest FSE 200 bar, Ultra Jet high pressure coolant system.
For further information, contact:
David Wilkinson (Sales Director - 600 Centre)
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 600600
Mike Wildish (Wildish Communications)
Tel: +44 (0) 1634 832221
