07/30/2026
A turbine component manufacturer had a 25-year-old, worn out saw and wanted to upgrade their charge cutting operation. They had already decided their low-volume, high-mix production environment made full automation uneconomical.
We provided a fully enclosed, 26" production saw with the same production duty work holding and conveyance components developed for our automated charge cutting cells.
Those components are what make an automated cell capable. Nobody is standing at an automated saw to notice a bar that shifted or a clamp that didn't hold, so the bar must sit and the clamp must grip the same way every cycle…24/7/365…that's production duty.
Cut-to-weight in investment casting is a consistency problem. Consistency comes from how well the bar is supported and how repeatably it clamps. When the machine takes care of those, the operator runs the job the same way every time instead of correcting it.
The components that make an automated cell capable also make an operator productive.