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Dear valued customers, Dear readers, Everything revolves around data. Industrial digitalisation affects machines, processes and systems. With greater control over the physical functional readiness of the machines, digitalisation improves industrial productivity. Reducing machine downtimes also increases the reliability of the systems. This makes it possible to increase production, whereby the systems along the production line are better linked to and coordinated with employees as a result of digitalisation. We have been offering our customers top-quality and top-performance products for almost...

PRODUCTION DATA ACQUISITION BEHIND THE SCENES Just like an orchid garden... Gain an insight into the world of Wolfgang Mitterlehner and the WFL Customer Service. ALL EYES ON WFL Heavyweight Performance SUCCESS STORY: ALP AVIATION Flying high with Alp Aviation The professional in machining and processing titanium, superalloys, aluminium, steel, stainless steel, magnesium and copper alloys. ALL EYES ON Automation with linear and area gantry WE LOVE... Burgenland A state where the sun shines and nature shows itself from its most beautiful side. ALL EYES ON CrashGuard Studio & ScrewCAM SUCCESS STORY:...

Just like an orchid garden... Wolfgang Mitterlehner – the haven of tranquillity and mastermind of WFL Customer Service n WFL Customer Service, everything revolves around customer satisfaction. Just like an orchid garden, this requires care, maintenance and attentiveness for sustainable production. Personal support and finding simple solutions to problems are daily tasks in the essential and extensive department at WFL. The objective is to keep the „customer orchid garden“ clean, tidy and free from problems. The Service department deals simply and efficiently with customerspecific issues with...

What is it that you like about customer service? We talk about this a lot internally and what it is that we like about this job. We often have to deal with a wide variety of problems from early until late, but ultimately it is about the end result and customer satisfaction. Resolving problems together and learning from them so that the next steps we take prevent them from happening again: that‘s what we like about it. Care, maintenance and attentiveness are key criteria for sustainable production for WFL Customer Service. Personal support and finding simple solutions to problems are daily tasks...

When you hear the word „successful“, who or what comes to mind? For me, WFL has a clear success story. Success is a feeling of happiness. This is what I see when a person‘s skills increase in line with the challenge. If the challenge becomes too much, too quickly, this results in stress and burn-out. If the challenge is too easy, a person can become bored. Over the last few years, WFL has focussed on the needs and challenges of both its customers and its own employees, which is why it has been so successful. This is also the reason behind WFL Customer Service success. We consider the needs of...

WFL Heavyweight Performance by WFL Millturn Technologies Higher, faster, farther – all this is great, but now „longer, wider and heavier“ is also possible. Industrial requirements are becoming increasingly stringent. This is where „Heavyweight complete machining“ from WFL comes into play. Special requirements call for special measures. To meet these requirements, WFL can realise a workpiece weight of up to 60 tonnes. What‘s extraordinary about this is that heavy components such as these can be machined with a single clamping procedure. A MILLTURN can handle high-strength steel or HRSA (Heat-Resistant...

SUCCESS STORY: ALP AVIATION Flying high with Alp Aviation Our editorial team flew to Eskisehir to talk to Mr. Serkan Erten, Business Unit Director from Engine Business Unit at Alp Aviation, and found out about the business fields of Alp Aviation as well as the connection between WFL and Alp. meter. Among our clients are the world’s leading aerospace companies, such as Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Collins Aerospace, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing. EFFICIENCY The production of the shafts covers diverse machining technologies: the shaft is manufactured in 3 clampings...

VOLUME Operator (Yunus Emre Karadayi) is responsible for the production of approx. 200 pieces of shafts per year. THE WORKPIECES Two different shafts are being produced on the M40 MILLTURN / 3000mm. The length of the tie shafts is reaching from 1,000mm to approx. 2,000mm. The main materials that are used for producing tie shafts are Inconel and Steel (Maraging). By doing complete machining on one single machine tool, processing time could be reduced by 30 % and an increase in flexibility of 60 % could be achieved. PRODUCTION PAR EXCELLENCE The M40 MILLTURN with 3,000 mm center distance and a...

ments in the world. A flexible manufacturing system with four machine tools and a centralized tool change system has been established two years ago and thanks to this innovative solution productivity increased by 30 %. Our aim is to reduce labor hours and increase the technological improvements. For that reason, all our in- vestments are a base for this approach. When we made the decision to investment in a MILLTURN, we also discussed this topic and the future development. As soon as the economic situation is getting better and requests are increasing, we will probably invest in further machines...