SHOWCASING EXCELLENCE

In the global machine tool industry, Taiwan plays a significant role with it being the 7th world’s biggest producer and the 5th largest exporter of tools. The nation’s Smart Machinery industry today holds an equally stellar reputation. With the aim to provide international players a glimpse into its Smart Manufacturing Solutions, the Bureau of Foreign Trade (MOEA), Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), and Corporate Synergy Development Center recently organized a free webinar and online trade meeting under the title ‘TAIWAN - Your Intelligent Partner for Advanced Manufacturing’.

Taiwan plays a significant role in the global machine tool industry with it being the 7th world’s biggest producer and the 5th largest exporter of tools.

The webinar caught attention of buyers from around the world, particularly Europe and Southeast Asia. It had five companies – AccuteX Technologies, Da Jie Electricity, Palmary Machinery, Tailift Group, and L&L Machinery – presenting their high-quality products and efficient solutions to hard-to-crack technical issues to the audience. Here’s knowing the companies and their cutting-edge offerings that they showcased…

AccuteX Technologies Co., Ltd

Established in 2001 by a group of ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) engineers, AccuteX has since been developing cutting-edge Wire EDM machines and providing ideal solutions to the Mould industry.

The company presented the topic of ‘The Wire EDM’s solution for Smart Manufacturing’. It demonstrated innovative func-tions to complete the last mile of the wire EDM automated production. It proposed the first function of ‘Probing measurement’ to install the highly sensitive touch sensor that works with the controller to complete the alignment, which was conventionally aligned manually. The alignment is made by the NC program to complete X and Y axis rotation and reference point finding. The machine then moves to the correct spot and makes equal discharging. It released a new type of flushing nozzle in the second, ‘final core removal’ function. The controller can sense core falling, then pick up and drop it by the magnetic force. The process can be completed without any manual operation. The new function makes the machine stop when the core falls. The flashing nozzle picks up the core and is carried to the box. The controller finishes the rest of the cutting until the entire job is done.

“AccuteX uses the ‘CIMFORCE FMS system’ for the EDM production. The operator can just input the CAD files. The system generates the standard GM code accordingly for machines. It provides the ‘end to end’ solution including the CMM quality assurance,” explained Jerry Chen, GM Room Special Assistant, AccuteX Technologies. “The system uploads all the in-formation to the cloud server to allow the operator to monitor the machines’ status, productivity and maintenance. Additionally, the system has an auto-scheduling ability if there is a demand to process an urgent delivery. It is a unique point in the AccuteX smart manufacturing system.”

Da Jie Electricity Machinery Ind. Co., Ltd (Da Jie)

Da Jie specializes in Electrical Heating Upsetter Machines, Resistance Welders, MIG, TIG, Friction Welders, and Laser Welding Machines. Its products feature innovative technology of automation and high-production capacity. Their extensive applications include automobiles, water tank, aluminum and titanium machining industries as well as whole-plant equipment production lines.

The company, during the online meeting, presented its products including Automatic Upsetter machines, and high-efficiency and power-saving Seam Welders, and also deliberated on ‘Innovative Technology Creates the Highest Valuable of Heating Forming and Welding Machines’. Da Jie has developed an Inverter Seam Welder for SS water tanks for addressing water shortage in more water demanding countries. It also makes Condenser Welding Machines for guide vanes used in the Pump industry and Upsetter Machines for high-class knife shanks.

Da Jie has developed an Inverter Seam Welder for SS water tanks for addressing water shortage in more water demanding countries.

Palmary Machinery Co., Ltd

Founded in 1998, Palmary Machinery has two subsidiaries and production bases in Taichung, Taiwan, along with two branches in China and Thailand. With 22 years of professional grinding machine manufacturing experience, the company supplies its grinders to more than 47 countries including China, India, and Japan. By adopting TQM (Total Quality Management), Lean Production management, the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) in production lines, the company produces grinding machines of superior quality with international standard CE norms.

Palmary presented its take on ‘High Value-added Grinding Solution for the Automotive Industry’ and also demonstrated its five series grinding machines. Its Centerless Grinder machines have the grinding wheel sizes from 12 to 24 in, with both various spindle and hydrodynamics spindle types. The Cylindrical Grinder machines have centers from 400 mm to 4 m. The company also has various CNC types including angular infeed and multi-spindle types. Its Internal Grinder has the maximum inner gradient diameter of 200 mm, along with one-wheel spindle and two-wheel spindle types. Its Vertical Grinders have diameters ranging from 200 mm to 1.6 m and are suitable for heavy or non-round shape workpiece grinding. It also showcased its Surface Grinders and Special Purpose Grinders.

“The shock absorber’s main function is to absorb shock impulses and keep your cars, scooters and trucks in stable condition while on the road. The most important component is the piston rod which needs precise outer diameter grinding,” asserted Elyn Huang, Section Manager - Sales Department, Palmary Machinery, on fulfilling requirements through its CNC centerless grinders model PCB-6040-3 for Piston Rod Grinding Solution. “The Palmary grinding application team is ready for your grinding requirements in not only the Automotive and Motorcycle industry, but also Mechanical components, Aerospace, Mould manufacturing and so on,” she concluded.

Tailift Group

Established in 1973 by a team of engineers led by Steve Lin, Tailift today has five factories with headquarters in Taichung, Taiwan, and sales offices in Indonesia, Dubai, and Vietnam. Since the production of radial drilling machines in 1975, it has developed forklifts, sheet metal equipment, automated equipment, and related products that find applications in Building, Heating/Cooling systems, Displays, 3C electronics/Machine equipment, Medical equipment, and Transportation.

The Group shed light on ‘High-value and Smart Sheet Metal Equipment’, and also its Laser Cutting machines that offers two series – FL series (Fanuc system) for high end, and TL series (PC based with nLight). “You can reduce the maintenance cost by using our machine. The fiber laser is made up of a vibrator and an external optical path through the fibre optic tube. No mirrors are needed, which greatly reduces the maintenance time,” said Jeff Lin, Vice General Manager, Tailift Group. “We also provide different kinds of power sources. We have 12000W, 2000W, 3000W, 6000W, and for 4000W, we offer a Variable Focus Corona Series. We use nLight Resonator made in the US and also FANUC Resonator used with FANUC 31iLB controller.”

L&L Machinery Co., Ltd

L&L Machinery (L&L) is a heavy-duty lathe manufacturer and provides customized and standard lathes to many industries. The company introduces smart design PLM, develops LL series and high-class CNC lathes, integrates design information to create virtual machine tools, adopts remote monitoring systems to connect with customers through IOT, and adopts image information to quickly respond to customers’ needs. Its LL series machines have been awarded Taiwan Excellence in 2019 and 2020.

L&L’s presentation focused on ‘The Vision of Smart CNC Lathe’, with its product capabilities. Its product line includes Manual Lathes, Standard CNC Lathes, Heavy-Duty CNC Boring Lathes, Large CNC Lathes (LFS, LFM), 5 Bed Way CNC Turning Boring Lathes, and 5-Axis Turning Milling CNC Lathes. The workpiece can be of the maximum weight of 40 tonne and 14m length. “For the point R&D technology, we can choose a suitable machine according to the following conditions for users like the weight, diameter and length of a workpiece,” informed Esme Chen, Sales Representative, L&L Machinery.

L&L Machinery’s LL series machines have been awarded Taiwan Excellence in 2019 and 2020. Its presentation focused on ‘The Vision of Smart CNC Lathes’.