30% Spindle Time – That’s All You Are Running At

It’s a popular misconception that your machine spindle is running 70% of the time or more. Once you take into account an 8 hour shift, setting, loading, lunch breaks and more, the harsh reality is that your machine spindle is only cutting chips for 30% of the time!

So what do you do to improve this? Automate, that is the simple answer, and made even simpler with Fastems. Here we talk to Leigh Tricklebank, Master of Automation, and he tells us how they helped Kongsberg Automotive improve efficiency with their legacy machines.