by erich | Feb 22, 2019 | Feature Article, News, Press Release
Machining long titanium tufting needle bars required a milling machine with a super-long X-axis travel. But the real challenge was thermal compensation in the Georgia heat. It gets hot in Dalton, Georgia, where Tuftco Corp. manufactures carpet tufting machines. These...
by erich | Jan 10, 2018 | Feature Article, News, Publications
With significant new business and rising monthly production rates this customer required the additional capacity of two machines but was constrained by a building that could only fit one. Faced with a critical decision, build a new building and house two new machines,...
by erich | Apr 10, 2015 | Feature Article, News, Press Release, Technical Article
One Size (Huge) Fits All (Critical) Requirements The new Bertsche X-Flex FMS replaces three machining centers and handles all expectations for a manufacturer supplying large components for an aircraft OEM The new Bertsche X-Flex FMS replaces three machining centers...
by erich | May 10, 2013 | Feature Article, News
Manufacturers can ramp up product. There will be more than one new machine introduced at IMTS 2006 that will be billed as a China beater, or as an India and rest-of-Asia beater, for that matter. U.S. manufacturers ranging from entrepreneurial job shops to Tier...
by erich | Mar 10, 2009 | Feature Article, News, Press Release, Publications, Technical Article
Exploring the ins and outs of specifying and ordering a flexible specialty machine tool and having a machine builder produce it. Standard machine tools are well suited for job shops, which typically don’t know the type of work that’s coming next. But OEMs often need...
by erich | Dec 10, 2008 | Feature Article, News, Technical Article
Designed for manufacturing entire families of large-scale parts from profile beams to aerospace standards, the fully automatic, five-axis P5 bridge mill from Bertsche Engineering provides fast, highly automated performance in “one-off” demand-driven manufacturing...
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