Single Source Technologies is pleased to introduce AccuMap, a one-stop service line of scheduled preventive maintenance, calibration, and quality assurance for high-precision machine tools.

Keith Kauzlarich, vice president of Single Source Technologies, notes, “Customers of machined parts are demanding reduced piece-prices, improved quality, and just-in-time shipping. The costs and risks of not meeting customer expectations can result in lost revenue, lost orders, and reduced profitability.” Parts manufacturers are being forced to get more and more out of equipment, tools, and people just to stay competitive. In the past, fixing equipment as it broke was sufficient to support manufacturing operations. As part quality degraded, recalibrating equipment occasionally was “good enough.” Now, with machine time and operator costs at a premium, machine uptime is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. “Parts suppliers can no longer afford to have equipment break down or fall out of specification at all, anytime, for any reason,” said Mike Boren, SST Service Manager. Regular equipment maintenance and calibration is a necessity to maintain a competitive edge.

“The die-mold and machined parts arena is highly competitive. At the same time our customers are reducing manpower and cutting back on scheduled maintenance. We see AccuMap as a way to provide customers with the means of assuring that their equipment is always accurate and production-capable,” Kauzlarich said. AccuMap is the service process developed by Single Source Technologies to help ensure that its customers have productive machine tools with maximum uptime, capable of standing up to the most demanding manufacturing schedules. AccuMap is a thorough, data-driven, documented review and equipment check that shows the condition and capability of machine tools. Then SST performs the necessary maintenance, leveling, and calibrations necessary to return equipment and tools to maximum capability.

The result of AccuMap is to provide manufacturing managers with clean, capable, operational equipment to help ensure that they can meet production schedules and minimize downtime.

Single Source Technologies follows a rigorous, 14-step process called CLLAIR that enhances the equipment manufacturers’ prescribed maintenance procedures. CLLAIR stands for Clean, Lubricate, Level, Adjust, Inspect, and Replace. AccuMap is regularly scheduled to find and fix problems before they get out of hand. AccuMap provides ISO-ready reports and pictorial statements of the equipment’s condition, data acquired during the process, and before-and-after machine capability metrics.

AccuMap offers four levels of service depending on customer need.

Bronze medal service is a basic service package intended to provide basic maintenance. Silver medal service provides additional adjustments on equipment axes as well as setting backlash using the Renishaw ball-bar. Gold medal service provides in addition, leveling and squaring the machine to OEM specifications as well as laser calibration and pitch compensation over three axes.

AccuMap’s fourth level of service, Diamond, offers rapid telephone and service response to breakdown problems, regularly scheduled preventive maintenance according to the equipment manufacturer’s specifications, “mid-year” inspection and ball-bar assessments, and reduced rates on parts and repair.

SST uses only factory-trained service technicians to perform AccuMap. The team's members average over ten years’ experience each. SST has a complete line of equipment, tooling, applications expertise, and technicians to maximize machine tool manufacturing capability.

The benefits of AccuMap are better, more consistent machine accuracy. Maintained equipment is capable of producing higher quality parts more consistently. AccuMap PM has been shown to improve equipment uptime, increasing production by putting more parts through the equipment, and reducing the time to make production schedules. Increased uptime also reduces the need to work premium time to make production schedules.

Single Source Technologies, Inc. (SST), headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a sales, service and application-based organization that specializes in machine tool products used in niche-type metal cutting industries.

To contact Single Source Technologies regarding AccuMap, please call Mike Boren – (+1) 248 232 6250 or mboren@SingleSourceTech.com or visit our website at http://www.SingleSourceTech.com.