CHALLENGE As a Tier 1 supplier for several of the world's leading automotive original equipment manufacturers, Eagle Manufacturing (subsidiary of Linamar Corporation) produces 1.5 million parts per year with takt times of 30 seconds or less. The company meets these production requirements...
Through the extensive use of horizontal machining centers and unique tooling techniques, Makino is developing new, more efficient methods of manufacturing engine blocks. Squirt reaming is one of the many creative tooling techniques recently developed by Makino. UNIQUE...