HEBRON, Kentucky, December 4, 2018 – Fives Machining Systems, Inc. a global machine tool and complete manufacturing solutions provider, has announced the relocation of its Machine Tool Services &Solutions business to a new production facility located at 2200 Litton Lane, Hebron, KY 41048. The Machine Tool Services &Solutions business provides productivity enhancements and service support to aerospace and industrial manufacturers for the full range of machine tools in their facilities.
“With the tremendous growth we have experienced since the acquisition of the Konecranes MTS in January of this year and the addition of service centers in the key strategic markets of Wichita, KS, and Charlotte, NC, our business has outgrown the space available in the former Konecranes MTS facility in Erlanger, KY. This move provides the expanded floor space in a modern climate controlled facility that is needed to accommodate the retrofit and rebuilding of our customers’ key assets.” said Steve Thiry, President &CEO of Fives Machining Systems Inc. “Our mission to be a world-class service &Solutions provider requires the resources and infrastructure of a state of the art production facility. It is an exciting expansion of our retrofit and rebuild capacity!”
Within Fives, the Metal Cutting | Composites business line, which includes Fives Cincinnati in Hebron, Kentucky, specializing in aerospace and metal cutting and composite machines and systems, Fives Giddings &Lewis in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, concentrating on large, high precision boring mills, machining centers and vertical turning centers, Fives Lund Engineering in Seattle, that provides unique design-to-build solutions, Fives Liné Machines in Granby, Quebec, Canada and Fives Machining in France, producing large portal mills, automation systems, robotic machining and tooling solutions.
The new home of the Machine Tool Services &Solutions will be headquartered in Hebron KY, and support the activity of over twenty service centers worldwide, including the seven in North America - Hebron, KY, Seattle, WA, Valencia, CA, Wichita, KS, Charlotte, NC, Fond du Lac, WI and Cambridge, Ontario.
Related Glossary Terms
- boring
boring
Enlarging a hole that already has been drilled or cored. Generally, it is an operation of truing the previously drilled hole with a single-point, lathe-type tool. Boring is essentially internal turning, in that usually a single-point cutting tool forms the internal shape. Some tools are available with two cutting edges to balance cutting forces.
- centers
centers
Cone-shaped pins that support a workpiece by one or two ends during machining. The centers fit into holes drilled in the workpiece ends. Centers that turn with the workpiece are called “live” centers; those that do not are called “dead” centers.
- composites
composites
Materials composed of different elements, with one element normally embedded in another, held together by a compatible binder.
- numerical control ( NC)
numerical control ( NC)
Any controlled equipment that allows an operator to program its movement by entering a series of coded numbers and symbols. See CNC, computer numerical control; DNC, direct numerical control.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
