Nikken business manager Danny Wells has been working with West Sussex-based Roscomac, a global leader in precision CNC machining, to assist in maintaining production following a spike in demand for its products following the coronavirus outbreak.
With over 13 years’ engineering experience as a programmer and a previous employee of Roscomac, Mr Wells has been drafted in to help make medical components.
Joseph Martello, Roscomac managing director: “Nothing gets in Nikken’s way to support this important activity. It is at times like these when you really know who can support you.”
Roscomac has over 40 years’ experience supplying a wide variety of industries including medical, aerospace, defence, and oil and gas.
In recent weeks, the UK Government’s request for manufacturers to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic has led to Roscomac experiencing a huge increase in demand for medical components.
Rising to the challenge, the company has hired 10 new members of staff to increase production and existing staff members have expanded their primary role, including two CAD/CAM programmers who are now running machines.
With over 60 CNC machines at its Worthing factory, Roscomac has the ability to machine components with most technologies under one roof, from multi-axis-turning, sliding head, CNC grinding and mechanical assembly.
With the need to maximise output, Roscomac have also begun emergency 24hr shift working, with machines being required to run with the minimum of intervention.
Roscomac chose to invest in a range of Nikken products citing high reliability, level of quality and effective support as the deciding factors. Nikken is renowned for its CNC rotary tables & NC tooling solutions.
These tools are currently manufacturing a variety of components for medical equipment including syringe pumps.
Roscomac recently contacted Nikken regarding critical tooling to increase the output of its two Brother M140X2 / ABB robot cell.
Even during the closure period, parts were flown over from Japan and delivered by Nikken personnel from their homes.