{"id":2543,"date":"2016-02-24T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T19:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2024-04-27T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T14:19:55","slug":"okuma-turn-cut-customer-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/okuma-turn-cut-customer-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Okuma Turn-Cut \u2013 Customer Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe significant investment was a &#8220;huge leap&#8221; and &#8220;a game changer&#8221; for the company.\u201d<br \/>\nChris Birker, Kytech Machine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class='section-content wpb_text_column wpb_content_element align-left Select txt-black  '><div class='wpb_wrapper'><p><strong>By Shop Metalworking Technology \u00a0(February 2016)<\/strong> When Chris Birker and his machine shop team attended IMTS 2014 in Chicago, they had a mission:<em><u> to find a new multi-tasking machine with the ability to run unattended.\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as I saw it, I wanted it&#8221; says Birker, who formed Kytech Machine Works Ltd. in Mount Albert, ON, in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;it&#8221; was an <strong><em>Okuma MA-500 HII Horizontal Machining Center<\/em><\/strong> equipped with Okuma&#8217;s Turn-Cut, a programming option that allows for full turning functions on a Horizontal Machining Center(HMC). The function enables ID\/OD turning, facing and grooving operations on the HMC, eliminating the need for a CNC lathe. Birker says the company was already using turning machines with live tools and sub spindles, but they couldn&#8217;t do what this machine could do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Birker says he liked that the concept of the HMC with the Turn-Cut option because it could meet two of his requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A machine that could handle milling and turning in a single setup<\/li>\n<li>Run Unattended om multiple jobs and parts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-7 vc_col-md-7 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;]\n    <div class='cta-box-container bg-light-grey'>\n      <span class='cta-box-subtitle'><\/span>\n      <h3 class='cta-box-title'>VIEW THE FULL COVERAGE<\/h3>\n      <p class='cta-box-body'><\/p>\n      <a class='cta-box-btn' href='https:\/\/emec-innermost.flywheelsites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/OKUMA-TURN-CUT-ARTICLE-SMPT.pdf' >\n        CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL COVERAGE<i class='fas fa-chevron-right'><\/i>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  [\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \u201cThe significant investment was a &#8220;huge leap&#8221; and &#8220;a game changer&#8221; for the company.\u201d Chris Birker, Kytech Machine [\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-7 vc_col-md-7 vc_col-xs-12&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-stories","category-okuma"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emecmt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}