Seven vertical machining centres from the same supplier, HURCO Europe, have been installed during the past 10 years in the Witney, Oxfordshire works of Acrona Engineering, including most recently a 5- axis VM10U with WinMax control purchased at the beginning of 2010. The investment was prompted by existing customers in the aerospace, medical and motor sport sectors in particular asking the subcontractor to manufacture more complex parts from a variety of materials. However, the machine’s presence on the shop oor has attracted additional work from new sources as well. One of the rst jobs onto the machine was an aluminium component for equipment designed to secure screw-on caps to the tops of drinks bottles. Another application was one-hit 5-axis machining of cryogenic components from c

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