PRODUCTION ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS Hailing a spirit of innovation Nikken: Shining a light on advanced manufacturing Pages 38 - 40 SUBCONTRACTING SOLUTIONS General: pages 68-73 Deep Hole Drilling: pages 74-77 1st Show Preview Pages 55 - 67

Solutions Report Ed Hill Hailing a spirit of innovation Nikken has opened a new innovation centre designed to highlight its latest machining accessory innovations. Ed Hill went along to discover what it offers potential customers. There was a time when metalworking facilities were pretty disagreeable places full of swarf covered floors, oil and grease hazards and other potential dangers to life and limb. But walking into Nikken’s new European innovation centre (NICe) could not be further from that scenario. In engineering, as in any line of business, first impressions count and the new facility...

< Continued from page 38 sending us new projects to work on and is very much a stakeholder in this facility." Inherent innovation Mr Bowkett is understandably proud of Nikken’s engineering heritage. Founded in 1958 by Masakazu Matsumoto who developed its first milling chucks and tilting tables, the company’s initial success was built on producing parts for Japan’s Bullet trains in the 1960s. The company has a long history of innovation holding 369 patents; it places particular importance on the heat treatments and material technologies used in its chucks and other products to ensure constant,...

NICe was officially opened in December 2015 as a centre of excellence for developing and showcasing the next generation of engineering strategies for high-value manufacturing. 350cc/min Metal Removal Rate in Ti-6AL-4V Twice the performance of the next-best solution! Cutting Tool Life 2 Hours in Aerospace Titanium Pocketing Applications Eliminate Scrap & Rework with 100% Shank Security Visit www.nikken-world.com today to find out more and book your X-Treme ExperienceMACH NIKKEN X-Treme tool holders “NIKKEN X-Treme products provide great advantage and reliable regrinding for tight tolerance machining...