Acquisition of two machine tool companies in the U.S. and Taiwan
Three strong global brands under one roof with over 150 different models of one of the broadest product portfolios in the machining center industry.
Indianapolis/Pliening, July 2015: HURCO Companies continues its globally oriented company strategy with the acquisition of two industry giants: Milltronics CNC Machines from the USA and Takumi Machinery from Taiwan. HURCO is headquartered in Indianapolis, USA. Its German subsidiary, HURCO Germany GmbH, is based in Pliening near Munich.
The group is a global leader in the development and manufacture of machine tools with integrated control technologies. The combined HURCO, Milltronics and Takumi businesses will represent one of the most extensive product portfolios in the machine tool industry, with more than 150 different models. “Milltronics and Takumi have more than 18,000 machines installed in 30 countries. This will expand our customer base and also reinforce our presence, particularly in markets of the future such as China and Latin America,” commented Michael Auer, CEO of HURCO Germany, on the potential of these latest acquisitions.
Gregory Volovic, President of HURCO Companies, expressed his satisfaction by concluding: “We believe our customers world-wide will benefit from the expansion of our portfolio because Milltronics and Takumi are strong global tool brands with an extensive range of machine tool products.” According to his predictions, this will already have a positive effect on HURCO’s consolidated earnings in the 2016 fiscal year. Milltronics is a manufacturing company that designs and builds CNC controls, milling machines and turning machines for toolroom and production environments at its Minnesota facility. Takumi, a company from Taiwan, designs and manufactures CNC vertical machining centers, double column machining centers, high speed bridge machines and other machine tools, with sales primarily in Taiwan, China and Europe.
Takumi and Milltronics products are the optimal addition to HURCO’s machine tool range in that approximately 60% of Milltronics and Takumi’s lines are unique. Machine tools equipped with industrial controls from Fanuc, Siemens, or Heidenhain have been added to the portfolio for high-volume manufacturing environments. In future, the individual product lines will continue to be sold under their own brand names. Tried and tested designs are used by each of the brands, a factor that benefits the development of product enhancements, technologies and models.
Contact:
HURCO Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
Alexandra Banek
Gewerbestraße 5 a
85652 Pliening
Phone +49 89 905094 29
abanek@hurco.de
Customers trust in proven WinMax control.
HURCO scores points with customers with the “WinMax” dialog control. Fast and at the same time safe programming creates high confidence in the plants.
Pliening, May 2015: Mechanical engineering trade fairs and symposia are increasingly dominated by questions about the “right” control. The background to this development is the high pressure to optimize with regard to sustainable economic efficiency and customer satisfaction. HURCO GmbH shows how a manufacturer of machine tools and machining gantries can translate this task into a successful machine concept.
“Our WinMax control is completely geared to the performance data of our machines. It is consistently oriented in its design to user requirements,” explains Michael Auer, Managing Director of HURCO GmbH.
The importance of this philosophy for the success of the company’s machining centers is demonstrated by the experiences of HURCO customers.
System and control are safe, we have very good experience with them
Philipp Engelbreit, Managing Director of Engelbreit & Sohn GmbH, was convinced by the detailed options of the HURCO machines and the clear, concise design of the control: “We have been working with HURCO machining centers for seventeen years. This control is so simple in principle that with the WinMax we have an intercultural production tool in our hands. We do not have to teach our workforce a multitude of German technical terms in various languages. A basic understanding of the German language is enough.” The contract manufacturing company’s confidence in the machines goes so far that it is quite possible to have the systems there working unmanned overnight in three-shift operation. “We check the wearing parts beforehand, of course, but the plant and control system are safe. Our experience with this has been very good,” reports Philipp Engelbreit.
Versatility is the competitive advantage
“The versatility of the HURCO control makes complex work simple. Quickly readable data meets a wide range of machine options. We can define up to 9,999 tools,” reports Michael Hamsen, Technical Managing Director of Miratec Kunststofftechnik GmbH. For him, versatility is an invaluable competitive advantage in the production of individual parts. Thanks to the control’s tool and material library option, each tool only has to be set up once. It is then stored in the control and can be called up again for each subsequent job. The very fast and precise handling via WinMax extends from start to finish. This is exactly what he needs every day with hundreds of parts. Thanks to the program database, he can call up and produce repeat parts in detail even years later – even on another machine from HURCO.
Variety of supply options
For Klaus Schmid, Managing Director of Schmid Metalltechnik GmbH, all these aspects are important. But for him, the real advantage lies in the quotation options of the WinMax. The operator can select from them without having to learn a new language straight away, he reports: “The user guidance is like a modern PC in the office: I call up a writing program when I want to write. And a page appears on the screen analogous to the printout later. When I enter “mill” in WinMax, I am also shown on the two screens how and what is being milled.”
Read in DXF data and off you go – quickly and safely
Andreas Husemann, production manager at TBA Projekt GmbH, agrees: “Dialog programming has really taken off for us. We no longer have to spend a lot of time programming and entering data. We read in DXF data, for example, and off we go – quickly and reliably”. Semi-skilled workers can call up ready-written programs, run them and thus handle production peaks in series production. The operator receives a one-time introduction to the control and runs the parts. This is due to the intuitive operation of WinMax using only a few keys, the extensive graphics options and the self-explanatory user interface. HURCO Managing Director Michael Auer knows this scenario well: “From a purely economic point of view, such orders are only attractive for contract manufacturers if they can operate with inexpensive labor. Then these orders pay off and create a competitive advantage. With our machines and WinMax DXF software, we help them achieve this.”
Contact:
HURCO Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
Alexandra Banek
Gewerbestraße 5 a
85652 Pliening
Phone +49 89 905094 29
abanek@hurco.de
A symbiosis of technically advanced hardware and powerful WinMax software.
A wide range of perfectly equipped CNC 5-axis machining centers, with the industry’s fastest control.
Pliening, March 2015: The CNC 5-axis machining centers of the VMX series from HURCO are versatile in several senses. HURCO currently offers six machining centers, all of which are equipped with an integrated rotary/swivel table. The concept of the integrated rotary-tilt table offers
more clearance on the Z-axis compared to other manufacturers’ models.
What sets HURCO machines apart is the symbiosis of technically advanced hardware and highly efficient software. This results in a product that is powerful as well as economical and at the same time has very good operability.
WinMax – the fast one among the dialog controls
The 5-axis machines of the VMX series are equipped with the “WinMax” dialog control – optionally with DXF option. The powerful software of the control from HURCO simplifies programming for 5-sided machining and creates the conditions for the production of precision parts in just three steps.
“Compared to other conversational programming, our WinMax DXF software reduces the programming time for a workpiece by up to 50 percent. Anyone who has tried WinMax is usually enthusiastic,” says Michael Auer, Managing Director of HURCO GmbH.
When developing the control system, the internationally active manufacturer of machine tools for metal-cutting production focused on uncomplicated handling. Sketches and DXF data can be quickly transferred or simply read in. WinMax can be operated intuitively via a few keys, offers comprehensive graphics options and a self-explanatory user interface.
Contact:
HURCO Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
Alexandra Banek
Gewerbestraße 5 a
85652 Pliening
Phone +49 89 905094 29
abanek@hurco.de