CNC machine tools provide a model solution

Model Products specialises in making complex engineering models for business purposes.Many of the models produced are working prototypes and require complex, often quite large, metal components to be machined.

The company initially invested in a ProtoTRAK CNC/manual bed mill supplied by XYZ Machine Tools.

This was soon joined by a second ProtoTRAK-equipped mill and then by an XYZ ProTURN CNC/manual lathe and an 11kW (15 hp)/8000 rev/min XYZ Mini Mill 560 compact vertical machining centre equipped with Siemens ShopMill conversational CNC.

All four XYZ machine tools are suited to prototype and low volume production, enabling the multidiscipline team at Model Products to take a customer's ideas in any format, from sketches to full CAD drawings, and quickly and easily program parts ready for machining.