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The new 8000 sqft High-Tech production facility near Mansfield takes the total investment in new plant and equipment in Impact Precision to over £1.5 Million in 2 years with investment having been concentated on High tech, High speed Multi-axis milling machines and lathes with powered tooling.
  
Press Release 8/9/2007
Now Installed :A brand new Doosan Daewoo Puma MX2500ST with B-axis for angled feature to be produced in one-hit
How it all Began :
Set up in November 2003 at Nottingham with a £500,000 investment budget in new CNC machine tools, Impact Precision has been structured to provide a round-the-clock fast response CNC machining service. The new company is using the latest multi-axis milling, CNC turning and CNC sliding head mill/turning equipment backed with skills from previous experience in the aerospace contracting industry.
Impact Precision’s managing director Paul Cobb maintains: “Everything has been structured to be a small, agile business to achieve high quality, short lead time production and providing a total milling and CNC turning service. Our team is small, but highly qualified in the multi-axis machining complex components.”
Production is centred around two Citizen L20 CNC sliding head automatic lathes, three HAAS VF2 vertical machining centres, each with a fourth-axis and multi-vice workholding and a Daewoo Puma 200 M with driven tools. Run by a workforce of five, Impact Precision is focusing on providing a multi-axis CNC service involving as far as possible ‘one-hit’ strategies.
Already, complex components from aluminium, stainless steel and brass have been produced with some contracts involving direct to line kanban service. And with the latest LNS barfeed system fitted to the Citizen L20s even small diameter plastic rod has been machined without any problems associated with whipping at high speed.
As Paul Cobb describes, one job involved turning and rigid tapping 3,000 stainless steel components. This batch was completed over a weekend, largely unmanned against a tight schedule and, due to the setting and stability of continuous machining, tolerance drift was measured in just a few microns.
As part of the setup, off-line programming and DNC linking has been established to all machines with flexible quick to set fixturing. Standard tooling is used as far as possible to enable a fast response and maximise machine utilisation. And for delivery, an overnight service has been established to anywhere in the UK.
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