The protagonist of this milestone control system is for the client of Spinner bmk Baumann

With more than two million of CNC control systems installed and more than 50 years of experience in production automation, Fanuc is the leader in CNC technology. In addition, there is also a major force in Europe: only in 2007, the specialist in control provided more than 10,000 CNCs. The number 10,000 CNC, incorporated into a precision Spinner SB-CNC lathe, was for bmk Baumann GmbH & Co. KG in Nuremberg, where it is in continuous operation.

The turning and milling of plastics and metals are the main activities of bmk Baumann, a company that employs 32 people. Specializing in the machining of plastics and laminates of tissues, this family business, under the leadership of Günther Baumann, enjoys an excellent reputation in the medical technology, the industry of bearings of ball and in the construction of General machines. "Our strengths are the technical competence and flexibility." "As a small to medium-sized company, offer our customers an extensive specialist knowledge and many years of experience", explained Günther Baumann.

Graded by all customers as a first-class supplier, bmk supplied completely assembled parts and components.

The director of the company Günther Baumann believes his qualified staff and its machinery, reliable and high-quality as the key factors in the success of the company. And continues: "the high technology of our production equipment ensures high quality standards and gives us the maximum flexibility to carry out even special requirements of customers." "We mechanized all kinds of materials and transforming them into high quality products: steel and non-ferrous metals, through all kinds of plastics, Torlon, PEEK, PE, POM, PTFE and Plexiglas, to composites such as laminates based on tissue."

From left to right: Axel Spinner of Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik, Günther Baumann of bmk and Leopold Schenk of Fanuc GE, front of the Spinner SB-CNC equipped with CNC Fanuc GE number 10,000 in Europe in 2007.

The director of the company Günther Baumann considers his qualified staff and its machinery, reliable and high-quality as the key factors in the success of the company

The machine tool manufacturer Spinner, of Sauerlach, is highly prized in bmk as supplier of machines for turning. Günther Baumann values of this company is that "Spinner, despite its extensive range of machine tools and its global orientation, has maintained the character of family business." "We have excellent cooperation and the relationship of price/performance of their machines is really good."

Is why Baumann decided last year purchased a lathe of SB-CNC precision with a capacity of 42 mm. It's the seventh Spinner lathe and the fifth with a Fanuc control system. Baumann explains: "we chose the system of Fanuc control and its software's programming workshop Manual Guide i by its ease of use." But it is not only that, in all these years we have not had a single breakdown due to the control. "This is very important, since it allows us to concentrate on our work without having to worry about control and drive technology."

The Spinner SB-CNC is a high-precision hard turning and turning micro lathe. It offers high reliability with minimum tolerances and is suitable for the manufacture of tools and prototypes, both for the production of large series. In bmk used to produce large series of small pieces of plastic, up to 30,000 pieces. To this end is equipped with linear tools and a counterpoint, and is controlled by a system of control of the series CNC GE Fanuc 18i.

However, bmk not only bores small pieces, delicately mechanized, but also external diameters of up to 400 mm, for which the production plant is also equipped with lathes of precision PD Spinner and a universal lathe of CNC TC77-SMCY equipped with subcabezal and axis andthat is controlled by high-performance series CNC GE Fanuc 18i-TB.