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Tool Room

The Brandauer tool room hosts both soft and hard machining sections and boasts the best in toolmaking technology. Brandauer’s expert toolmakers are some of the business’ longest standing employees and their 100 years’ of combined know-how is now influencing a new generation of toolmakers, preserving Brandauer’s specialist tooling capability into the future.

The tool room is one of the unique selling points of the Brandauer facility and offers a clear and differentiating benefit – the integration of all progressive tooling requirements from design and development through to full-scale production and maintenance. Brandauer’s bespoke toolroom manufacturing and design system ensures the tool room is seamlessly connected to the Wire EDM cell and CAD studio, making communication and process efficiency matchless.

This connectivity is vital and investment in technology such as Visi Progress for progressive die design and press tool design is one area that brings these connections to the fore.

Visi Progress allows multiple benefits to surface for both Brandauer and its customers. The software is installed and utilised in the Brandauer CAD studio and its industry specific functionality provides a more productive and efficient design experience, helping the tool designer with intelligent decisions and reducing the potential for error, greatly improving manufacturing productivity.

Also integrated is the wire EDM cell which utilises micron level state-of-the-art technology that is currently very rare in the UK. This investment allows for a much more accurate tool manufacture, unmatched anywhere else in the UK.

Brandauer pride itself on the quality and longevity of its unique tooling standards and tooling transfers which run consistently in presses (10 to 1,200 strokes per minute) for longer than 25 years.

Tool room equipment & machinery list

Brandauer’s 45,000-square foot facility, allows for over 50 distinct components in production at any one time. With presses operating at 2,000 strokes per minute, you have the potential of millions of components a day at your disposal.

Computer aided design

9 VISI 2022 (4 VISI Progress, 2 VISI PEPS Wire, 3 VISI 2D Machining)
1 Edgecam 2022
2 Solidworks 3D 2015

New Tooling Division & Precision Tooling Academy

1 GF AgieCharmilles CUT E600 (WEDM)
1 GF Mikron 800 PRO
1 Metaletch ME3000T
1 GF AgieCharmilles DRILL 20 (EDM Driller)
1 Andmar YSG-1640 TS Surface Grinder
1 Andmar 52S Surface Grinder
1 Tesa Microheight
1 Pedestal Grinder
1 Juma Grinding M/C
1 SIP Power Saw
1 Bridgeport CNC GX480
1 Excel turret miller ETM2VS
1 Excel lathe Opti turn TH 3610
1 Excel bandsaw KV-40
1 Hexagon CMM global classic silver edition
1 Zwick z010 destruction tester
1 Zwick hardness tester

Metal Finishing

2 Inert Gas, monitored, heat treatment plants operating to 600°C
1 Tumbler D-burring machine
1 Solvac S1 Ulrasonic Cleaner
1 Solvac S2 Ulrasonic Cleaner

Wire EDM

2 GF AgieCharmilles CUT 3000
1 GF AgieCharmilles CUT E600
1 GF AgieCharmilles DRILL 20
1 ACTSpark SP1 Spark Eroder

Maintenance Toolroom

2 GF AgieCharmilles CUT 3000 (WEDM)
1 GF AgieCharmilles DRILL 20 (EDM Driller)
1 ACTSpark SP1 Spark Eroder
1 Milling Machine
1 Mikron VC750 CNC
1 Harrison Lathe
1 Drilling Machines
1 Addison Band Saw
1 SIP Power Saw
1 XYZ CT52
2 Jones & Shipman 1400 surface grinders
2 Jones & Shipman 540 surface grinder
1 Andmar YSG-1224 TS
3 Micro-hite Microprocessor Gauging Machines
1 Mitutoyo Projectors with Digital Display
Dimakin CFP-100T Try-out Press

Keep exploring Brandauer’s world-class tooling capability

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Facility tours are available by request and are actively encouraged to get an understanding of the breadth of factory capability that represents modern manufacturing at its cleanest, most efficient and best. You can request an invite to tour the entire facility using the form below.

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