b'Productive TimesGOODBYE, BUCKET BRIGADEU sing buckets, barrels and hoses to manually replenish coolant in machine tools doesnt cut it in this tight labor market or when a parts manufacturerwantstoperform lights-out machining. That was the case for Precision Tool Technologies Inc., said Jim Goerges, president of the Brainerd, Minnesota, company.Like most companies, we were part of that 5-gal. (19-liter) bucket brigade, he said. It was always a pain in the butt.Goerges started PTT in 1993 with four products and now has about 6,000. The company does some job shop work but focuses primarily on the prescription eyewear industry.Wedontmakelensesor frames, he said. We help the wholesale optical laboratories edge the lens to insert the lens into the frame and to put the prescription into the eyeglass lenses.That manual approach, Goerges said, meant that coolant wasnt replenished on a timely basis. Or workers would forget to do it, and a machine would run out of coolant,Precision Tool Technologiessmoke, break tools and potentiallyThe FullShop automated coolant delivery system monitors coolant usage at a machine tool crash. He also reasoned that hissump and automatically replenishes coolant before it runs low.52MAY 2020 ProTimes.indd 52 4/17/20 10:10 AM'