Hybrid Cleaning / Peening Machines

Author:  Kumar Balan, Wheelabrator Group
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 21 / Issue 4, Fall 2007
Doc ID:  2007027
Year of Publication:  2007
Abstract:  
Where do we go from here? With cost pressures from offshore manufacturing, it is time to tap into our history of innovative production skills. Our manufacturing has to get leaner and higher in productivity. In a manufacturing environment where most cost reduction initiatives have been exhausted, hybrid machines open avenues for new savings. Applications, such as the one introduced in the beginning of this discussion, where parts are being handled twice, with manual intervention, provide opportunities to realize immediate savings with the hybrid machine concept.