Building of Efficient, Energy-Saving Lines with an Extremely-Compact Machining Center and CNC Lathe

Industrial products today are expected to be smaller, lighter, and more multi-functioned, and such products consist of numbers of extremely small and pre-cise components. Yet, turnovers of such products are short, and their production volumes fluctuate at ex-treme. The production engineering for such compo-nents, however, which should correspond to, and opti-mized for this situation is still in progress, even though such components are growing in numbers and kinds: becoming even smaller in size and the demand fluc-tuates more. We have developed extremely compact machining center and CNC lathe, which covers these points: most optimum means of production for small or microscopic components. We have also built a concept of a production system, today commonly called “desktop factory” by using multiple numbers of these “desktop” machines. © Fuji Technology Press Ltd.