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News Release from: Waldmann Lighting | Subject: Machine tool lights
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2005
Shedding light on machining operations
Yamazaki Mazak, the world's largest machine tool manufacturer, fits Waldmann machine tool lights on all its Mazak Nexus VCN machining centres and QTN CNC lathes wherever in the world they are made.
Yamazaki Mazak, the world's largest machine tool manufacturer, fits Waldmann machine tool lights on all its Mazak Nexus VCN machining centres and QTN CNC lathes wherever in the world they are made For the European market, Waldman Lighting UK in Leeds supplies RL70 tube lights and smaller AWDE pot lights to Yamazaki Mazak's European manufacturing facility in Worcester
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Waldmann was able to meet Yamazaki Mazak's requirements for size, output, lighting profile and voltage with an off-the-shelf product, says Waldmann Lighting UK's Managing Director, Graeme Hall.
"We are increasingly being asked to provide lighting systems to meet very precise specifications".
"We can produce bespoke lights if necessary, but most requirements can be met from our very extensive range of standard models and options", explains Hall.
As well as Waldmann's ability to match Mazak's required specification, quality and reliability were also key deciding factors.
According to Kevin Price, Electrical and Electronic buyer at Yamazaki Mazak UK, the Waldmann Lights have excelled in both these areas.
"The quality of goods received from Waldmann is my responsibility", says Price, "and in the time that we have been dealing with Waldmann we haven't had to return anything".
"We haven't had any field failures either - I would get to hear about them pretty quickly if we had".
Good illumination is essential on any machine tool to ensure error-free setting, inspection and maintenance, but the cutting zone of a machine tool is an extreme and hostile environment for any form of lighting.
The Waldmann lights are designed to withstand constant flushing with coolant and damage from hot or sharp chips while meeting and exceeding all the requirements of EN1837.
This is the European Machinery Directive on machine lighting and calls for at least 500lux to be delivered to the working area with no glare, shadowing or stroboscopic effect.
The RL70 lights supplied to Yamazaki Mazak comprise a compact 36W fluorescent tube in a waterproof borosilicate glass enclosure and a flicker-free electronic ballast.
The AWDE is a small boro-silicate glass pot light with an 18W compact lamp, again with a flicker-free electronic ballast, and fitted with a parabolic reflecting louvre to give glare-free directional lighting. Request a free brochure from Waldmann Lighting ...
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