Tokyo, September 5, 2012 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) is taking an important step to intensify its proposal-based marketing of machine tools and cutting tools to the world market through a new approach collaborating with Federal Broach Holdings, LLC, a company MHI acquired this April. Going forward, MHI will aggressively explore demand from customers seeking enhanced production efficiency and machining accuracy in the automotive and aircraft industries, and will support them through machining systems combining the technologies of the two companies. As part of this initiative, MHI will present its machine tools and cutting tools at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2012 to take place September 10 through 15 in Chicago, Illinois, in collaboration with Federal Broach, to demonstrate their high-level solutions for diverse needs in a broad range of fields.
In pursuing synergy effects from the integration of its
business operations with those of Federal Broach, MHI looks
to explore global markets leveraging the two companies'
respective business bases. Major targets are
automotive-related industries and manufacturers of jet
engines and turbines that use the broaches*1 and broach
machines produced by Federal Broach, as well as users of
automotive, construction and industrial machinery in the
Asian markets, where MHI is in a position of solid
strength.
Together the two companies will offer potential customers
proposals on various machine tools and cutting tools,
including gear cutting machinery, as well as know-how in
selecting optimum machining technology. This approach is
designed to help customers extend their range of machining
process choices according to their specific needs: for
example, enhancement of mass-production capability, greater
machining accuracy or cost reductions. In addition,
integration of the two companies' production and
production-control technologies will enable shorter
delivery periods and provision of finely tuned servicing
and support leveraging their respective operating
bases.
At IMTS 2012 MHI and Federal Broach will jointly propose
systems capable for high-speed precision machining of
workpieces, including gears. MHI will present its
"MVR30," a double-column 5-face milling machine,
and two gear machines: the "SE25A," a dry-cut
gear shaping machine, and the "ZE40A," a
universal gear grinding machine capable of numerically
controlled (NC) high-precision machining of post-heat
treatment gears. The MVR30 provides highly accurate,
high-speed machining and has an abundant delivery track
record, mainly for machining of metallic molds for
automobile parts and parts used in various large-size
machines. The ZE40A is capable of accommodating both
generating grinding and profile grinding*2 and can be
applied to machining of diverse workpieces. Federal Broach
will exhibit various cutting tools: helical broaches used
to process the inner teeth of helical gears, which are
found in the automatic transmission gears of motor
vehicles, and "pine tree" type broaches, which are used
primarily for machining grooves that mate blades and
turbine discs in the fabrication of jet engines and
turbines for power generation plants.
IMTS, which takes place every other year, is one of the
world's three largest international machine tool fairs,
along with Europe's Machine Tool World Exposition (EMO)
and the Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF).
IMTS attracts manufacturers and users not only in the U.S.
but from all over the world, setting the scene for active
business negotiations. Through the show MHI aims to expand
its proposal-based marketing approach to potential
customers, with expectations of order receipts during the
exhibition.
MHI is one of a few companies in the world which handle
both machine tools and their cutting tools. Leveraging this
advantage, the company has developed various innovative
products and technologies, including the world's first
"dry-cut gear cutting system." The markets and products of
MHI and Federal Broach are highly complementary, with more
than 95% of MHI's machine tool and cutting tool sales
coming from Asia and about 80% of Federal Broach's
sales emanating from North America and Europe. Going
forward the two companies intend to continue strengthening
their collaboration to precisely respond to needs of
customers.
Notes:
1. Broaches are bar-shaped cutting tools that, when
attached to broaching machines, are used to remove material
from workpieces to form complex
holes and finish surfaces with a high degree of
accuracy.
2. Generating grinding is a grinding process for
generating a tooth profile applying the relative movement of
the workpiece and a grinding wheel not
having an involute curve shape. Profile
grinding is a grinding process to adjust tooth shape using a
tooth-shaped grinding wheel.
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