FIBA Increases Productivity by 50% with Soraluce Multitasking Machining Center

When your parts are up to 42-feet-long, it's essential that you have a CNC multitasking machine that can precision machine each feature in a single set-up, which until recently was not possible at FIBA Technologies.

For decades, the machine shop at FIBA relied on two three-axis horizontal machining centers to produce the necks and threads for its gas containment vessels, but they could only machine these features on one side, which meant they needed an overhead crane to load, machine, unload, flip and reload to complete each vessel.

Amid increasing demand from their customers in the space exploration, alternative fuels and electronics industries, the shop decided to invest in an more efficient CNC multitasking machine that could perform all machining operations, milling and turning, on both sides, in a single set up. The solution, a Soraluce FLP 14000 multitasking machine from Select Machining Technologies, supported by the Robert E Morris Company, both based in CT.

The Soraluce FLP 14000 features a traveling column that can travel 14,000 mm on the X-axis, which is enough to move from one end of the long vessels to the other. With 2,200 mm in the Y-axis and 1,500 mm on the Z-axis, FIBA is able to machine both ends on up to 3 vessels in a single set-up, eliminating the need for their overhead crane to lift and flip the tubes.

The Soraluce H205 automatic indexing universal spindle head on the FLP 14000 CNC can index on vertical and diagonal axes in 2.5-degree increments. This adds additional flexibility so the machine can perform vertical and horizontal CNC milling and turning operations, as well and drilling and milling features and any angle.

FIBA Technologies, a third-generation, family-owned company that produces custom tubes for gas containment and transportation applications, discovered this when starting to update its machining capabilities.

If you're in need of large capacity multitasking CNC machining solutions, contact us at Select Machining Technologies today!

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910 Day Hill Road
Windsor, CT 06095