Bacher Medizintechnik, based in the town of Tuttlingen in south-western Germany, is an OEM of surgical instruments. Given the growing requirements for its processes to be validated, the company decided to invest in a CHIRON automated double-spindle machining center – in what represented a visionary step for this industry.
»As an OEM of medical instruments, we are always faced with stricter requirements for our manufacturing processes. Since the beginning of the year, the new European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) has required even greater efforts when it comes to validating and documenting our processes, particularly for removing production-related residual material from components and instruments. So that these rising costs are not generally passed on to our customers, we must not ignore any opportunity to streamline our existing processes. We believe that purchasing the double-spindle five-axis machining center from CHIRON is a key step in this direction since we can operate this machine productively around the clock and with minimal staff supervision, « says Andreas Bacher, Production Manager at Bacher.
Bacher and CHIRON first came into contact at the beginning of 2018. Provided with a specific array of components and their variants to manufacture, as well as a deadline for the complete machining of these components, CHIRON set about its work.
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For more information: www.bacher-medizintechnik.de