Issue 60 - Tornos

Presentationfriends we kept the contact with each other all thetime and one day during spring 2011 the three of usdecided to start up our own workshop”, Emil Sandinsays.To produce very close tolerances and small, narrow dimensions is a specialty at the newly startedPart Precision Sweden in Mariestad.different relation. Therefore I jumped at the idea ofstarting a small workshop with Emil and Anders whoI see as extremely capable production technicianswith great knowledge of cutting technics. I myselfhave worked with selling and marketing for 20 yearsso I hope to bring something. We are three differentpersonalities with different knowledge fields andcomplement each other extremely well. Emil andAnders took the first step and they know everythingabout metal cutting but how should they get in contactwith the customers ? It was here I entered thescene. After two weeks we had sketched out a businessplan, made our first budget and worked out avision.”“I was of the same opinion as Anders, that they reorganizedonce too often and I lost the joy of workingand the enthusiasm. I have a long experienceof mechanic work as a machine operator and productiontechnician. At the same time as Anders waswalking around thinking of this new company I got anew job in another company. As old colleagues andTARGET PLAYERS IN ADVANCEDMETAL CUTTING WITH TURNING INFOCUS“We are a production partner who is specialized inmachining of difficult materials as titanium, stainlesssteel, super alloys and different types of plastics forthe medical industry in advanced dental and fracturesurgery and precision parts for the offshore anddefence industry. The business is concentrated onprototypes, small and medium size series with up to50000 components.”The three partners have with their long experienceand great technical competence combined withleading-edge technology set the standard that allthe work at Part Precision Sweden has an extremelyhigh precision. To that must be added that they havedecided to be certified according to ISO 13485 :2003and this work is very much in progress.A great deal of the company’s rapid success is relatedto the fact that they are familiar with the market.Jarkko Peltola has a long experience of selling andmarketing and together with the professionalskills, know-how and experience of his two partnersEmil Sandin and Anders Dahl they know how tomake the most of their Tornos machines.We asked Olov Karlsén, product manager and technicalsalesman at Ehn & Land AB, the Swedish agentfor the Swiss manufacturer Tornos, a company wellknownworldwide primarily for their development ofmachines such as single spindle and automatic lathes.“We know each other since 12 years and we have amutual confidence in each other. I know what thesepeople can achieve and I realized early that theyshould go for it to 100 % right from the very beginning.New machines was their only choice, to buyused equipment was out of the question as this couldend up with machine stops and loss of valuable productiontime. At the same time they wanted to haveuse of all guarantees available on new machines.”“During my years as a machine salesman I cannotremind me of a workshop that have started up soquickly (2 months) and they have today three 4-axessingle spindle lathes from Tornos with an interestingtechnique. They can run the machines without guidebushes, which means that they can use the machinesas conventional lathes.”“Just to be able to run the machines without guidebushes is a big advantage as you do not need the16 decomagazine01 / 12