Concept

Since the early days of machining industrial mass products, machining technology has been constantly developed and improved. Modern component materials and the constant optimisation of tool technologies have led to a dramatic reduction in machining times.

Non-productive times have also been continuously reduced. However, this development has not yet kept pace with the increase in productivity of the machining processes, which has a negative impact on the productivity of the overall process. Particularly in machining operations with a large number of different tools and short process times, such as drilling and thread machining, productivity suffers considerably from unproductive non-productive times, e.g. due to tool and/or pallet changes.

This was one of the decisive reasons for ELHA to question all previous concepts. The result of these efforts was the development and extremely successful market launch of an ingenious machining concept that has revolutionised the machining production of mass-produced components!