LCP Machine is a full service CNC machine shop located in central Florida; serving multiple industries including medical, aerospace, energy, and defense; and manufacturing precision components in both small and large quantities. If you walked into LCP’s facility today you see an impressive line up of advanced CNC equipment. In the forefront of their shop, you’ll notice a machine of a different color; a Eurotech SwissTurn model.
You can’t help but wonder why this SwissTurn is sitting in front of a production line, so we put the question to the local Eurotech SwissTurn Distributor, U Tech CNC. “LCP is a big machine shop that runs many different parts for various industries, especially the aerospace industry. They decided that they wanted to move away from multiple machine processes and upgrade to ‘One and Done’ ideology if possible,” said Patrick Shaver with U Tech.
“We recommended the Eurotech SwissTurn Gepard. Simply put it has more technology for the price, i.e., greater bar capacity than other Swiss machines plus it has the hybrid feature of quick change from guide to non-guide bushing which would be a good solution for the high precision parts they manufacture, said Patrick.
In a follow up with Sean Lafferty, president of LCP Machine, he explained, “We were interested in the Eurotech product for two reasons. First, we wanted to start running unmanned and lights out; and second, we really like the service and support we get from the U Tech CNC team.”
Sean continued, “We run a lot of high-end aerospace parts and with this machine we are able to run a 12 hour shift without stopping. Now that we’ve eliminated second and third operations, we are seeing a huge cycle time savings, not to mention a boost in productivity. The live tool capacity is awesome, and the accuracy is better than I expected. We are holding tolerances of .0002”.
You can’t help but wonder why this SwissTurn is sitting in front of a production line, so we put the question to the local Eurotech SwissTurn Distributor, U Tech CNC. “LCP is a big machine shop that runs many different parts for various industries, especially the aerospace industry. They decided that they wanted to move away from multiple machine processes and upgrade to ‘One and Done’ ideology if possible,” said Patrick Shaver with U Tech.
“We recommended the Eurotech SwissTurn Gepard. Simply put it has more technology for the price, i.e., greater bar capacity than other Swiss machines plus it has the hybrid feature of quick change from guide to non-guide bushing which would be a good solution for the high precision parts they manufacture, said Patrick.
In a follow up with Sean Lafferty, president of LCP Machine, he explained, “We were interested in the Eurotech product for two reasons. First, we wanted to start running unmanned and lights out; and second, we really like the service and support we get from the U Tech CNC team.”
Sean continued, “We run a lot of high-end aerospace parts and with this machine we are able to run a 12 hour shift without stopping. Now that we’ve eliminated second and third operations, we are seeing a huge cycle time savings, not to mention a boost in productivity. The live tool capacity is awesome, and the accuracy is better than I expected. We are holding tolerances of .0002”.