Synthes is a leading international medical device company producing a wide range of trauma products, spine products, facial surgery products and hand and foot surgery products. The company is a major supplier to the European and Latin American markets. The company has a total of 5,600 employees and annual sales of around $15 billion. Its core business is bone products. In this field, the company in Mezzovico, Switzerland plays an important role.
C30U 5-axis linkage / complete machining center / complete machining of the implant
Synthes produces a unique range of products for endogenous plant treatment of fractures and orthopedic surgery. The processing location is a huge modern machine tool factory with more than 200 CNC lathes, CNC milling machines and machining centers. Every year, about 200 tons of high-quality raw materials, such as grade 4 pure titanium and implanted iron, are consumed. The processing work is three shifts. The company has 12 manufacturing plants around the world, different manufacturing plants, different requirements, different production volumes, and different production times, ranging from 4 days to 12 weeks. However, in some special cases, the product can be produced and delivered to customers in one day. The Mezzovico production site's goal is to achieve ISO/FDA quality standards and process management, while ensuring a high delivery rate of over 96% and controlling or even reducing costs as much as possible. Some workpieces are plate-shaped and may be only 20mm long, stamp size, or as long as 300mm. Therefore, it is necessary to produce a single component and also produce a series of hundreds of components. In most cases, these components are complex and can be produced in a few steps on traditional milling machines and machining centers. At the same time, it is required to achieve high yields and quality so that profits can reach 10% annual growth. This is why Synthes wants to choose a five-axis machining center and a high degree of automation.
One of seven fully automatic C800U production units with HS 30
A few years ago, when buying machine tools, we must consider the future direction of production technology. Synthes evaluated the five-axis machining center in many aspects. Since the processing concept of Hamer's five-axis machining center is very convincing, Synthes finally chose the Hammer C800U series machine. At that time, 22 Hamer production centers were put into use at the Mezzovico plant. The configuration of each series of machining centers is almost identical, so that the operator can easily operate and maintain each machine. The same is true for fully automated processing units and HLS board processing systems based on the C800U machining center. As mentioned above, approximately one-third of the machining centers are equipped with HLS plate handling systems for full automation. Despite this, Horst Lindner, head of the production division, believes that there is still more room for development. He believes: "The company should continue to develop into automatic production. Only in this way can production, quality, flexibility, and delivery be met. â€
Hammer's five-axis machining center is the perfect choice, because Hammer machines can not only match the HLS system, but even the six-axis robot.
In addition to Synthes, the Hammer 5-axis simultaneous machining center is also used in several of the world's leading medical device companies to produce orthopedic products such as hip joints.
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