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Norcot collaborates with partner turnkey Chiron-UK for the manufacture of the watermarks for the aircraft of the North American company Eclipse Aviation

Norcort Engineering is consolidated as a supplier for the aeronautics sector thanks to its two Chiron Mill 2000 machines

Drafting MU17/03/2009

March 17, 2009

English specialist in production for aeronautical parts Norcort Engineering manages to reduce costs by piece through complete machining of two machines Chiron Mill 2000 5-axis high speed plus configured turn-key. Norcort, in close collaboration with the turnkey Chiron-UK partner, is consolidating as a supplier for three structural components as complex as the watermarks for the aircraft of the North American company Eclipse Aviation. Chiron is represented in Spain by machinery Eurotec.

Around the world are increasingly more production companies wishing to access the growing aviation market. In addition to constructive solutions, technical materials and production, absolute quality, flexibility and meeting deadlines, aircraft manufacturers expect their undertakings costs per piece as economic potential.

This also see him as Steve Fogg, director of production of the English manufacturer of aeronautical parts Norcot Engineering Ltd.: "of course, the ability to solve problems is the most important thing in our business." However, customers are now oriented worldwide to make their purchases of parts and components. On our planet there are many productive sites clearly more economical and more favoured. The people who live there also wants its piece of the pie of well-being. Globalized competition leads to a drop in prices. "If we want to continue living on our business, we not only have to convince our clients from the professional and organizational point of view, but that we also need to develop and use better concepts of production".

The technical director of Chiron-UK, David Broomfield and the director of production of Norcot, Steve Fogg...
The technical director of Chiron-UK, David Broomfield and the director of production of Norcot, Steve Fogg, are discussing details of structural components in 3D for the Eclipse.

According to the technical director David Broomfield "countries who do not have own technologies that are key in creating value with the technique of machining stop being independent and lose their strength of innovation." "Companies like Norcot are extremely important to us and have many possibilities of achieving demanding orders for the aircraft industry."

In this sense, the English company produces about 600 different pieces for a dozen of companies on demand in own facilities with zinc coating, graffiti and more and more, also mounted.

They are especially proud of the three structural components for two small aircraft engines Eclipse 500, which include a plate base and two pieces of fuselage in 3D must be manufactured in two inverted versions. They share these pieces with a weight of up to 80 kg as blank, is its high percentage of machining up to 95%. In addition to roughing is a large number of machining tolerances very close on all sides as, for example, smoothing, drilling, threading, beveled, rounded and deburring. To all this is added the bad habit of the aluminium parts that its reliable fixation is all the more difficult the more work has progressed. Furthermore, should provide just-in-time between 40 and 60 units per month within the time limits. Automation does not enter into consideration. The rapid changes of preparation are converted into an obligation.

The Chiron Mill is available with tours of displacement in X 800 to 8,000 mm and comes equipped with a swivel CN head both a rotating platform...
The Chiron Mill is available with tours of displacement in X 800 to 8,000 mm and comes equipped with a swivel CN head both a rotating platform, which is ideal for complete machining precise and economic in costs per piece.
The English company produces about 600 different pieces for a dozen of companies on demand in own facilities with zinc coating, graffiti and more and more, also mounted

Steve Fogg: "together with our Bedford plant 40 CNC machining centers we have in use, but they had failed us term and not targets of costs and technical requirements." However, the important thing for us is the client and their parts. To be able to deliver an offer, we have developed a production process and we were looking for a suitable partner for solutions. "After many conversations with different suppliers of machines, we have favored the offer from Chiron UK Broomfield David."

The basis of the offer were two machines Chiron Mill 2000 high speed plus of Chiron in Tuttlingen, each equipped with a swivel head installable (+/-100 °, spindle of 20,000, 75 Nm), rotating table (400 mm x 2,000 mm)a store chain for 24 tools HSK-63, robust stainless steel roofs, as well as control Fanuc 18i MB5 as CNC. As particularity, Chiron surrendered two precision 5-axis machining centers with a table reduced by 100 mm at a height of 700 mm.

High demand: there are almost 2,500 orders for Very Light Jet (VLJ) Engine Eclipse 500, with a price of approximately US $ 2.1 million...
High demand: there are almost 2,500 orders for Very Light Jet (VLJ) Engine Eclipse 500, with a price of approximately US $ 2.1 million.

David Broomfield: "we have successively completed machines to turn them into a turnkey solution and installed it in January and may of 2007." "Commissioning the conducted in parallel to the process and instruimos at the same time operators". Among the custom adaptations of the client was, for example, the equipment with a zero-point clamping system, as well as different devices of subject specific parts. There was also an accommodation with vacuum for the determination of the Board of the aircraft, as well as several hotels that have been milling in Mill 2000 3D for the subject without deformation of structural components for the cabin with their way of snow shoe. For the measurement of the pieces a transducer of measuring Renishaw OMP has been integrated in the CNC control software. This transducer has a post protected within the loader tools and can be inserted automatically in the spindle as a tool, if necessary. In addition, machines were equipped with a supply of coolant 30 bar with a reserve of 900 liters in each case, as well as devices of suction of the workspace and filter installations. Steve Fogg expresses his satisfaction: "Currently use the Mill for up to 15 shifts per week." In addition to the structural components of large formats for the Eclipse, we also mechanized clearly smaller parts with 5 axes. The large working table is simply ideal for multiple pylons. We manage unattended machining times of up to 3 hours. "And the preparation not really takes a long time."

In addition to the structural components of large formats for the Eclipse, we also mechanized clearly smaller parts with 5 axes...
In addition to the structural components of large formats for the Eclipse, we also mechanized clearly smaller parts with 5 axes.

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