Multi Station Grinders

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Multi Station Grinders

• International Tool Machines of Florida Inc.
• 5 Industry Drive
• Palm Coast, Florida 32176
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• iitm_at_pcfl.net
• www.itmfl.com

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ITM Company History

• Mr. Karl H. Giebmanns, the founder and President
  of ITM, began his
• career in 1969 working as a chief designer for a
  German grinder
• manufacturer. He has also worked as plant
  manager and chief
• engineer for a U.S. manufacturer of grinding
  machines.
• Armed with many forward thinking ideas, and eager
  to design and manufacture his own line of
  grinding machines,
• In 1981 Mr. Giebmanns established ITM in
  Westport, Connecticut. ITM was founded with the
  purpose of supplying
• application driven, high value, production
  grinding machines to a worldwide customer base.
  ITMs customers have
• been primarily well known companies from around
  the world, which are leaders in the tool cutter
  industry, medical
• industry, automotive industry and others.
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• In 1992, ITM moved its design and manufacturing
  facility to Palm Coast, Florida. The new larger
  facilities gave the
• company room to grow as its customer base
  continued to expand. The Florida location, with
  its year round mild
• climate, good schools, and low cost of living,
  provides the employees of ITM with a high
  standard of living. The
• attractive Florida location has also made it
  easier to recruit new talent from around the
  world. Palm Coast is located
• 5 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and offers
  numerous recreational activities such as boating,
  fishing, golf, tennis,
• motorcycling, biking trails, hiking, equestrian
  sports, live shows, and many fine restaurants.
  ITM is also located less
• than 1.5 hours away from three international
  airports. The city of Palm Coast, Florida
  provides an excellent base
• from which to operate. In fact, the company has
  seen its sales triple since moving to Florida!

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ITM Company History

• ITM Recipe for Success
• ITM uses a small and effective staff, coupled
  with aggressive and
• focused leadership, to design and manufacture its
  machines. This
• allows us to respond quickly to an ever-changing
  marketplace and
• special customer requirements. Some new machine
  designs have gone from concept to completion in
  under three
• months. ITM currently holds over 30 patented
  machine designs. By using a building block
  concept, in conjunction
• with the latest computer technology, machines are
  easily tailored to the customers exact needs.
  The innovation of
• these machines is that 80 percent of their
  components can be applied universally to a range
  of tasks, while only 20
• percent of the machine must be customized to suit
  specific tasks. ITM can also develop proprietary
  machine
• designs for customers giving them a distinct
  advantage over their competitors.
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• ITM designs the machines, develops software,
  assembles the components, and installs all the
  machine electronics
• at the Palm Coast facility. The machined and
  fabricated components are outsourced to carefully
  selected vendors
• in Florida, Connecticut, and Germany. Many of
  our vendors have been with ITM since the
  beginning of the
• company. By outsourcing these components, we are
  able to respond quickly when large multiple
  machine orders
• are placed and at other times of high demand.
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ITM Company History

• Another key ingredient in ITMs success is the
  accumulated grinding
• knowledge that has been gained by ITM personnel
  from diversified
• exposure to a large number of industry markets.
  We believe that the
• best grinding machine is no good without the
  correct grinding technology.
• ITM offers turnkey solutions with the most
  productive and cost effective
• grinding wheel technology and coolant systems.
  In order to overcome the
• limitations of existing coolant systems, ITM
  developed its own coolant filtration system.
• The correct grinding technology and a consistent
  coolant supply is one of the keys to producing
  high quality parts
• in the shortest time possible. Including the
  Multi Station Grinders ITM offers a total of 6
  various Production Lines.
• A Few Success Stories
• ITM was the first grinder manufacturer to develop
  a machine and automatic grinding process for
  producing stainless
• steel hip broaches used in hip joint replacement
  surgeries. Prior to purchasing ITM machines in
  1985 , the hip
• broaches were ground by hand using a
  labor-intensive process that required 11hours to
  produce a complete broach.
• With the new ITM process, the cycle time was
  reduced to 20 minutes and part quality was
  greatly improved!
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• ITM developed a new machine and process for
  producing large high quality thread rolls. Prior
  to the purchase of the
• ITM grinders, the customer averaged 20 hours to
  produce one thread roll. With the ITM grinders,
  the customer was

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ITM Company History

• For a manufacturer of carbide drills, ITM built
  machines for preparing
• the carbide drill blanks that, with the use of
  high speed peel grinding,
• reduced the average cycle time to produce a
  complete blank from
• 25 minutes to 5! One of ITMs greatest success
  stories has been the
• development of our ever-expanding line of Multi
  Station Grinders.
• Multi Station Grinders divide up the operations
  to produce a complete
• part over up to 5 grinding stations. The end
  result is a high quality part at very high rates
  of production.
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• The first ITM multi station grinder was developed
  for the production of HSS drills. One customer
  who selected ITM
• to be the sole supplier of its HSS drill grinding
  machines purchased 41multi station grinders over
  a 2-year period.
• The machines were purchased because of their
  small footprint, greatly reduced manpower
  requirements, and
• increased throughput. Throughput is increased by
  eliminating the scheduling headaches associated
  with performing
• separate operations on multiple stand-alone
  machines.
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• A customer who manufacturers carbide drills on an
  ITM multi station grinder was able to reduce his
  cycle time to
• produce a complete high performance carbide drill
  from 10 minutes down to 2.5 minutes!
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• An ITM customer who manufactures HSS routers
  produces a complete router every 7.5 seconds with
  their multi
• station grinders. This compares to over 60
  seconds before the purchase of the ITM multi
  station grinders!

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ITM Company History

• Finally, an ITM customer purchased a multi
  station grinder to produce
• carbide, diamond cut, ball nose routers. ITM
  worked closely with this
• customer to optimize the machine and grinding
  technology for the
• production of these tools. Prior to delivery,
  the machine ran production
• for 3 months at ITM 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  lights out and
• unattended operation overnight and on weekends.
  The machine is
• equipped with an automatic system to notify an
  attendant via telephone
• in the event of a machine alarm. With the ITM
  multi station grinder, a complete part was
  ground every 72 seconds,
• and during the 3 month period a total of 85,000
  parts were produced! During the same 3-month
  period, the
• customers existing machine could produce a
  maximum of only 16,500 parts in a two shift five
  day operation!
• Moving Forward
• ITM is an application driven company. Our
  grinding machines are designed to provide our
  customers with the best
• possible solution to their manufacturing
  challenges. We are experienced at the efficient
  utilization of our resources
• to design and manufacture very forward thinking,
  cost-effective, and innovative machines. We
  operate in an
• organized way that creates an environment where
  things get done right the first time. We strive
  to stay focused on
• our goals and achieve them in the most efficient
  way possible. We are not afraid to question the
  way things have
• been done in the past. By doing these things, we
  are able to deliver high quality, high value
  machines to our

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Overview Multi Station Grinders

• ITMs Multi Station Grinders are
• production grinding machines for
• the manufacturer of HSS and
• Carbide Cutting Tools, round
• shank and square (carbide inserts).
• The RTG Rotary Transfer Grinder resembles a
  compact grinding cell consisting of up to 5
  precision grinding stations connected by a high
  speed rotary transfer mechanism.

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Benefits of Multi Station Grinders

• Optimum part per person output ratio
• Reduction of cycle times
• Increased Uptime
• Reduced Changeover/ Set-up time
• Reduced Production Scheduling time
• Reduced floor space requirements
• Reduced wheel cost

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Machine Features Specifications

• Up to 5 Grinding stations and
• 1 Load/Unload station in one
• compact machine cabinet (68 sq ft)
• Up to 50 HP spindle drives
• Integrated dressing at each station (usage of low
  cost conventional wheels, CBN and Diamond wheels
  possible)
• Integrated blank oversize check (prevent machine
  damage and reduce downtime)
• Integrated quality control of critical tool
  dimensions

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Machine Features Specifications

• Easy to use open structure
• Software, menu driven with graphical support
• CNC control with Networking and Internet
  capability
• for Online Monitoring and Support
• Large capacity loaders for up to 50 hours of
  unattended production
• HSK quick-change wheel flanges for reduced
• set-up times

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ITM Multi Station Grinders in Service

• As of May 2003 ITM has installed 68 Multi
  Station Grinders in the United States and Europe.
  Applications include
• HSS Drills
• Stainless Steel Medical Drills
• High Performance Carbide Drills
• HSS Carbide Endmills
• HSS Drywall Fiberglass Cutters
• HSS Sheet Metal Step Drills
• HSS Center Drills
• HSS Spade Drills
• Diamond Cut Carbide Routers Burs

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ITM Reference List
USA

• ALLIED MACHINE ENG.
• AMERICAN SAW
• AMERICAN TOOL (Wisconsin)
• AMERICAN TOOL (Nebraska)
• BALAX
• DEPUY
• G.K.N.
• GREENLEE TOOL
• IMPLANT INNOVATIONS
• ITW
• JASCO TOOLS INC
• J.I. MORRIS
• JORE CORPORATION
• KENNAMETAL NC (Asheboro)
• KENNAMETAL NC (Weldon)
• KENNAMETAL MA
• KENNAMETAL GA
• MASTERCUT TOOL CORP
• NIAGARA

• OTHY INC
• PFAUTER MAAG
• QUINCO
• REED RICO
• ROBERT BOSCH TOOL CORP. (Vermont American)
• S.G.S.
• SOSSNER
• TIVOLY INC
• TRIUMPH TWIST DRILL
• TRW OH
• TRW TN
• UNION BUTTERFIELD
• VITRAMON
• WALTER VA
• WILSON TOOL
• WELDON
• ZIMMER
• Customer in the state of NY wishes not to be
  named
• Customer in the state of IN wishes not to be
  named

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ITM Reference List
Worldwide

• SUTTON TOOLS Australia
• DORMER TOOLS SA Brazil
• INTL MINICUT Canada
• SHANGHAI CUTTING China
• CESKA ZBROJOVKA Czech Rep.
• CLOU Denmark
• JANIN France
• BOSCH France
• MAGAFOR France
• BALTRUSCH U. MUETSCH Germany
• AUGUST BECK Germany
• BDS MASCHINEN Germany
• BUDERUS Germany
• EUGEN DUERR Germany
• FETTE Germany
• GIESS U. QUANZ Germany
• IFA Germany
• LEITZ Germany
• LINIG Germany

• TITEX India
• ROTHENBERGER Ireland
• SILMAX Italy
• DORMER TOOLS S.P.A. Italy
• F.I.U.M. Italy
• MASTER TOOLS S.P.A. Italy
• VERGNANO Italy
• OSG Japan
• NACHI Japan
• HITACHI Japan
• Y.G. 1 TOOL CO. LTD. Korea
• CABRE S.A. Spain
• IZAR Spain
• DORMER TOOLS AB Sweden
• WEBA Switzerland
• CHARPILLOZ SA Switzerland
• HWA FENG Taiwan
• HO HONG TOOL Taiwan
• MAKINA TAKIM Turkey

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Reliability with Top of the Line Machine
Components

• Control system GE-Fanuc (Japan)
• Latest control models currently 16i
• Highest machine tool productivity and best uptime
  in the Industry
• Average 14 years between failures
• 2 year warranty standard, extended maintenance
  contracts available up to the lifetime of the
  machine eliminating any part or labor cost for
  control components
• Nationwide technical and parts support 24x7
  through 1-800-GE-FANUC
• Servo motors are air purged to prevent
  contamination
• Spindles Fiege (Germany)
• High Performance direct driven watercooled
  motorspindles with HSK quick-change flanges
• Preloaded bearings with ceramic balls for longest
  lifetime cycles and highest precision
• Air purge system to protect the spindle from
  contamination with grinding residue
• Maintenance free lubricated for life
• Automatic monitoring of spindle coolant
  temperature in control with warning messages
• Spindle components are constantly quality checked
  during the manufacturing process.
• Final inspection and performance test with
  protocol for each spindle before shipment

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Reliability with Top of the Line Machine
Components

• Fully Automatic Central Lubrication System Vogel
  (Germany)
• Models are used with Gear Pumps for operation
  with highest reliability
• The Oil Reservoirs are equipped with float
  switches. If a switch detects a low level
  situation a message is displayed on the control
  screen to notify the operator.
• A switch monitors the pressure of the central
  system. If low pressure is detected a warning
  message is displayed on the control screen to
  notify the operator
• Lubrication is automatically controlled by a
  timer
• Linear Rails THK (Japan)
• Model Type SHS-SS with ball retainers designed
  for longest lifetime cycles with maintenance free
  operation
• All rails are sized and designed to exceed 30
  year lifetime expectancy
• Contamination protected by End-, Side- and Inner
  Seals
• Positive oil pressure from central lube system
  inside the shoes guarantees efficient lubrication
  and supports contamination protection
• Ball Screws THK (Japan)
• Precision ground, preloaded Type BIF for
  longest accuracy life of screw and nut
• Preload is achieved by CNC ground Nut lead offset
  instead of conventional oversize ball preload
  method
• Each screw is connected to the Central
  lubrication System (maintenance free)
• Bellows are used to protect the screws from
  grinding residue contaminating the system

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