There are three divisions of Midlands based TBT UK: selling deep hole drilling machines on behalf of its parent company TBT Tiefbohrtechnik GmbH in Germany; a subcontract deep hole drilling service; and a tooling department dedicated to both the sale of new gundrills and the re-tipping and re-grinding.
They have also taken on a tooling and accessory company. TBT UK’s managing director Mark Ramsay, speaks to Industrial Director
Six months after the hugely successful launch of the Tornos GT 26 turning centre, the Swiss sliding head turning specialist is now introducing its smaller Swiss GT13 turning centre.
Developed for the production of relatively complex components, the new Tornos Swiss GT13 is the ideal solution for the subcontract manufacturer.
Omnipresence or ubiquity is the ability to be everywhere and witness everything that happens at a given time.
Sounds like an impossibility for us humans, right? Or is the internet making it a reality? Think about it, you can have a video call with someone from the other side of the world, remotely access surveillance footage in real time and track shipments from door to door - all online.
If 80% of all hydraulic failures on machinery can be traced back to contaminated oil, why do maintenance engineers place their faith in component monitoring? Chris Gray, Filtration Product Manager at Bosch Rexroth explains why oil sampling is the key to greater machine uptime.
Preventive maintenance and component monitoring are two of the big buzzwords being used more and more across British manufacturing.
