Production

Our modern production facilities allow us to produce a vast range of items - from miniature, for medical components - to massive, for the aerospace industry. Machined fabrications can have complex structural three dimensional forms with dimensions of up to 2 metres from a single piece of material.

Future AM can work from raw data or CAD models in many formats including Catia V5.

In-process testing includes vibration, strain, friction, hydraulic pressure and flow, low magnetic permeability, liquid, gas and air flow.

We understand the exacting requirements of specialist products, material integrity and testing from initial design and materials specification, through solid modelling and manufacture to final CMM inspection by direct comparison to the original CAD data.

Our ISO quality systems have been approved by the demanding Aerospace and Electronics industries to ensure common quality standard across the various disciplines. System details are available on request from Future AM's Quality Assurance Department.

A massive array of production and testing equipment, combined with a workforce of multi-skilled engineers, ensures that work is carried out within specification, schedule and budget. 

Strict adherence to delivery dates is vital to successful sales. All three Future AM factories share one upper level management system, operating a common MRP2 production scheduling system on a common network.


CNC Production
Future AM specialises in high complexity, high integrity, lower volume, close tolerance, production.


Production Turning

  • A cell of 4 Large Capacity Puma CNC Lathes
  • Puma 250 76mm bar Capacity, 570mm swing, High Speed Fanuc OTC control
  • Puma 200 60mm bar Capacity, 500mm swing, High Speed Fanuc OTC control
  • Puma 8H – as above but with driven tooling for secondary operations within the same set
  • Long Bed capacity: CNC 2000L Colchester lathe Fanuc OT control (8 station Turret)
  • Maximum size of CNC work piece: 20” dia x 5” lg. or 15” dia x 10” lg. or 8" dia x 48" lg.

 

Quick Set-up, Low volume production

  • Bridgeport Ezpath CNC centre lathe
  • Proturn 410 76mm bar capacity. (New 1999)
  • Maximum size of CNC work piece 8" dia x 48" lg.


Extensive Cylindrical surface and Jig Grinding Capacity


Production Milling

  • DMU60T Universal CNC 4 axis machining centre fitted with Heidenhain 430 high speed digital control. High speed head. Traverses - 610 x 500 x 600 z. Network Link (0.03mm)
  • Matchmaker Fadal VMC 4020 CNC Bed Type machining centre fitted with Fadal 88 High speed CNC control, extended column, full 4th axis, Renishaw probing. Traverses - 1020 x 450 x 600 z. DNC link. (0.075mm)
  • Matchmaker Fadal VMC 40 CNC Bed Type machining centre fitted with Fadal 88 CNC control, full 4th axis, extended column. Traverses - 650 x 350 x 600 z. DNC Link.  (0.075mm)
  • VC25 and ‘Partsmaster’ CNC Bed Type Machining Centres with Fanuc 6MBL14 CNC control. Indexing head. Traverses - 750 x 400 x 610mm z. (0.075mm)