b'GRIPPERS. PINS. ROLLERS.C. TateMitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas specified pallet changers for its horizontal boring mills and recovered the added expense during the first year that the machines were in operation.machines with dual pallets, we areas easy as increasing part density able to take advantage of long runor the number of parts in a ma-times and complete setup activitieschine. Improvements are achieved on one pallet while the other pal- by lessening the time it takes to let of workpieces is in the machineload and unload parts. Consider being cut. While we have not elimi- a part that has a five-minute cycle nated setupyetwe have elim- time. If it takes one minute to un-inated its cost. load the part, load another work-Eliminating noncutting can bepiece and restart the machine, that is a six-minute part. If the number of parts increases to four and the about the authorload/unload time remains the same,LOCATE YOURthat is now a five-minute, 15-second part. Although 45 seconds is not aDEALER ONLINE!Christopher Tate is engi- big deal when there are only a few neering man- parts, savings are significant when ager of advancedthere are hundreds or thousands of manufacturingparts to produce.engineering and machining atDevelop Repeatable Processesthe Savannah, Georgia, facilityIt is common to see a machin-of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas Inc., Lakeist open the doors of a machinewww.fairlaneproducts.comMary, Florida. Contact him attool, measure a feature and then re- [email protected]. start the machine so it can continue. ctemag.com/cteguide.com47Palletization.indd 47 2/17/20 9:43 AM'