A Big Machine WITH A LEAN ATTITUDE

Author:  The Shot Peener Staff
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 22 / Issue 4, Fall 2008
Doc ID:  2008034
Year of Publication:  2008
Abstract:  
Product Review Blast Cleaning Machine Engineered Abrasives, Alsip, Illinois, has constructed one of the biggest rotary index machines in manufacturing history. The machine will clean the internal oil passages and the entire external surface of V6 aluminum engine blocks at an incredible speed of 90 engine blocks per hour. The machine, built to customer specifications, is 45 ft. tall, weighs over 40 tons and was completed in seven months. Engineered Abrasives not only had to meet customer specs but also had to design a large machine that would be built in-house, disassembled, transported and reassembled at the customer