Breton launches Matrix 1000 and Ultrix 1000 at EMO 2015 in Milan

Good morning,

Our solutions for your success: we look forward to seeing you at the exhibition EMO 2015, in Milan (Italy), from 5 to 10 October
[Hall 1 - Stand D 19].

Come and see closely the two Breton's CNC machining centres:
MATRIX 1000 K60 DY and ULTRIX 1000 RT HD.

BRETON MATRIX 1000 K60 DY

The perfect solution for aerospace industry. A 5-axis high-speed machining centre for milling large-size aluminium components equipped with an electrospindle that can machine workpieces up to 6 meters in length (removal capacity: 11000 cm3/min). 
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BRETON ULTRIX 1000 RT HD

Are you looking for a machining centre that combines milling and turning? 
Your solution is ULTRIX 1000 RT HD, the multitasking machine for working superalloys, steel, aluminium and composite materials, already chosen by first-class energy, aerospace and gear industries. 
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Well, that’s all for today. 

Bye-bye

Sergio Prior

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New partnership for Breton in USA

In March 2015, Selway Machine Tool Co. became Breton’s new sales & service agency for the territories of California, Washington State, Oregon and Nevada.

Selway is one of the largest providers of CNC machining centres of the West Coast, and works daily with the biggest aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, power generation, and general industries.

SELWAY MACHINE TOOL

With 110 employees; which includes 56 service and application engineers and 2 Siemens CNC specialists, Selway is giving a great support to Breton USA to expand their presence in the american market

WESTEC 2015

Selway will be joining the Breton Team in Los Angeles, CA for the Westec trade show, the West Coast’s premier manufacturing exhibition.

So, if you want to have access to advanced technologies, new products, applications, and especially meet the industry experts, save the date and join Breton USA from September 15-17, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, in California, booth #624!

Bye-bye

Sergio Prior

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Breton Matrix 800 - Interpolated 5-axis high-speed machining centre for milling steel, aluminium, composite materials and resin

Pure flexibility

High-speed precision machining centre for milling complex three-dimensional work-pieces that require accurate machining and continuous axis interpolation. Matrix 800 is the ideal solution to satisfy production requirements in the aerospace and automotive, toolmaking and design industries.

Easy access and perfect visibility

Matrix 800 allows optimal accessibility and visibility of the working area thanks to its large front doors and gantry structure.

Precision and Flexibility when machining at high speed with 5 continuous axes

As a guarantee of high performance Matrix 800 is equipped with heavy-duty shoulders built with innovative Metalquartz technology:  an high tech material including special resin and a high percentage of quartz to guarantee optimal vibrations dampening and the same thermal expansion as the metal structure it self for enhanced surface finishes and longer working life of the cutting tools.

A Superior Head

All electrospindles offer the highest performance thanks to the cast-iron fork head, which gives both structural rigidity and the ability to absorb machine vibrations.

High-speed, Performance and Accuracy

Carriage and beam travel on generously sized recirculating roller guideways to ensure precision and stability. Axes are moved by a ground recirculating ball screw systems. Optical linear encoders ensure maximum axis positioning precision. All axes are powered by the latest generation brushless servomotors controlled by digital drives.

Electrospindles and Tool magazine

Matrix 800 machining centre can be supplied with a choice of electrospindles depending on the type of material machined.Precision is always guaranteed by the spindle thermal stabilisation system and software compensation of the natural thermal expansion that could be caused by changing operating conditions.
Matrix 800 is available with wheel-type tool magazine with min. 30 tools (150 tools max) installed outside the working area to protect it from dirt and ensure the maximum reliability through time.Tool magazine can be equipped with an automatic tool coding system with chip. 

M 48/28
An electrospindle with 20 kW power rating, continuous torque in S1 of 48 Nm and 28,000 rpm is the most appropriate choice for companies that need to perform high speed machining of steel and aluminium, from semi-finishing to precision finishing.

 M 64/28
An electrospindle with 37 kW power rating, continuous torque in S1 of 64 Nm and 28,000 rpm is the most appropriate choice for companies that need to perform high speed machining of steel and aluminium, from roughing to precision finishing.

Roof-top bellows and Dust extraction

Ideal for machining aluminium and composites, Matrix 800 can be equipped with an efficient extraction system for composite materials dust installed on the spindle nose, and roof-top bellows that completely seal the working cell, isolating the machining zone from the outside environment.Various alternative fumes and dust extraction systems are available in accordance with specific customer requirements.

The ideal cooling system

Depending on the type of machining, the tool cooling system can use coolant outside or through the spindle (mac 60l/min) with fixed or variable internal pressure up to 70 bar, incorporate a spray mist system or simply use compressed air.

Monitoring and in-process inspections 

Matrix 800 can be equipped with a laser tool presetter and a radio frequency probe to acquire work-piece dimensions and coordinates, so to simplify the worpiece setting.

For INFO and request write now to mail@breton.it. 
Well, that’s all for today. 
Bye-bye
Sergio Prior

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All the benefits of a new warehouse

Breton re-designs its warehouse in collaboration with Ferretto Group. Automated logistics for optimisation of space, flows and processes.

A state-of-the-art warehouse for a virtuous circle of advantages. Breton recently inaugurated its new warehouse. Breton, an organisation deeply rooted in its geographical area and proud to maintain its headquarters in Castello di Godego (Treviso), took a criticality and turned it into an opportunity. With the production shops looking to expand to accommodate rising demand due to the company's constant growth, especially over the past five years, the existing space was simply insufficient (Breton's operates in an 81,000 m2 site). The solution came from the people with a mission of flexibility: the logistics department.                                               
More and more companies engaged in the daily struggle to shave production times and keep up with their delivery schedules with efficient inventory management logic are facing the same basic requirements. Breton looked at ways of reconfiguring its internal layout for wide-ranging optimisation of both the mechanical engineering department (high speed machining centres) and for the stone processing machinery area.

“We started from the need to create more space for manufacturing activities. But we wanted to ensure that this core business area requirement would act as a catalyst to grow and develop the entire organisation” explained Breton Production Manager Massimo Marchioro.

“The manual warehouse we were using was operating at capacity and there was no room to install the innovative systems we needed: we calculated that our personnel were wasting 50% of their time in the warehouse simply moving from rack to rack to find or store items: a wealth of time and energy we had every intention of recouping”. 

Breton found its ideal partner in Ferretto Group. This company, based in the province of Vicenza and specialised in the design and integration of racking, platforms and automated storage systems, gladly took up the challenge to optimise a large number of active part codes in a limited space (more than 170,000 item codes including raw materials and intermediates, from screws weighing a few grams to intermediate products with a mass of hundreds of kilos).

The requirements called for a tailored solution embodying several automation technologies, combining an automated warehouse with stacker cranes and 4 vertical storage systems with drawers and cantilever racks for protruding load units. Assembly work started in May 2013 and we'd already placed the first item of stock in the new warehouse in August of the same year: a record in terms of completion time.

“The automated warehouse is on 7 and 9 levels, with double depth storage bays that can accommodate palletised goods and metal boxes. Overall the warehouse has a capacity of 2,188 load units in just 600 m2” notes Walter Squizzato , who explains the scope of this major Breton investment. “The compact size of the solution allowed us to recover an impressive 1,500 m2 for our production lines. A point of interest? We managed to keep the factory up and running throughout the entire process with no loss of production time”.

The self-loading storage system is fed by three incoming goods bays with touch screen monitors, hand-held barcode readers, and roller conveyors to carry the goods to the stacker crane pick-up station (the physical warehouse and virtual inventory are perfectly aligned). The WMS then allocates the material to the optimal storage bay for the best possible warehouse saturation. The automated warehouse has an input/output capacity of 80 cycles/hour, while the vertical storage systems operate at an average hourly rate of 58 missions.

The automation made it possible to absorb the impact of input peaks that occur especially at intervals of approximately 15 days. Now the majority of Breton suppliers deliver their goods already packed in the automated storage system load unit containers.

Higher productivity and safety, more functional storage and material handling for a fully automatic inventory: Breton's investment is returning value in numerical terms. A few initial perplexities proved to be unfounded. “Innovation has radically changed our way of working. We originally feared that the new warehouse would be unable to offer a sufficient level of flexibility. Now however we all recognise the value of the change... and this is just the beginning: we're ready to exploit new benefits created by this virtuous circle” concludes warehouse manager Omar Mezzalira. 


Technical characteristics of the installed automated storage systems:
Total floor space: 40,000 m2
Logistics area: 1,740 m2
Available height: 10.5 metres
Year of commissioning of current configuration: 2013
Number of loading bays: 2 input + 2 output
Incoming volumes: 2 million pieces/year
Item codes: on average 170,000/year, of which 45,000 automated

-Vertimag Flex vertical storage systems
Number of active storage systems: 4
Height: 14 metres
Type and model of bay: double over/under bay with automatic roller shutter
Number of drawers: 60
Drawer load capacity: 700 kg
Operations capacity: 232 cycles/hour
Maximum peak capacity: 7,424 items in 8 hours

-Self-loading automatic warehouseHeight: 13 metres
Warehouse capacity: 2,188 Load Units
Number of stacker cranes: 2
Number of levels: 7 in block A and 9 in block B
Number of bays: 34 double depth in block A, 33 double depth in block B  
Load units: metal boxes, pallets
Operations capacity: 80 cycles/hour
Maximum peak capacity: 560 items in 8 hours.
Well, that’s all for today, thanks for your attention. 
Sergio Prior

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