Tong-Tai (Topper) has Provided a Vertical Machining Center (TMV850A) to the Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center in Cincinnati, Ohio for Research and Education purposes
As a machine tool builder for 30 years, Tong-Tai understands Diagnostics and Failure of components. It now wants to enable further research in Prognostics and Degradation of components to achieve near-zero-downtime performance.
VALLEY COTTAGE, NEW YORK (PRWEB) August 6, 2005 -- Tong-Tai (Topper) has provided a vertical machining center (TMV850A) to the IMS center in Cincinnati, Ohio for Research and Education purposes. The machine is physically located at TechSolve, one of the members of the IMS partnership.
Tong-Tai (Topper) one of the leading machine tool builders in Taiwan is moving into the next phase of advanced machine development. As a machine tool builder for 30 years, Tong-Tai understands Diagnostics and Failure of components. It now wants to enable further research in Prognostics and Degradation of components to achieve near-zero-downtime performance.
The Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) Center is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), located at University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan The IMS researches topics in Intelligent Maintenance. The strength of the center is in areas of predictive monitoring and prognostics to enable machinery to achieve near-zero-down time performance. Current company members that collectively benefit from the centers research, include; Rockwell Automation, Intel, Harley-Davidson, We Energies, General Motors, United Technologies, USPS, Hitachi, Tong-Tai, etc.
Tong-Tai Seiki is a full line machine tool builder providing Standard Machines, Customized Machines and Special Purpose Machines in the US, Far East and China. It has offices in Taiwan, Mainland China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and USA. In the US, its machines are sold and serviced through a network of full service distributors throughout the country.
Tong-Tai started as a builder of machining lines for motorcycles in 1969. The principal products at this time were automatic turning machines and multi-spindle drilling and tapping machines. This basic background of building special purpose machines has been instrumental in providing the foundation of Tong-Tai being a machine tool builder rather than just an assembler of purchased components.
Tong-tai started building CNC turning centers in 1982 and advanced to horizontal and vertical machining centers in 1985. Knowledge to design and manufacture these machines was gained over 30 years of technical cooperation with various Japanese Machine Tool Builders. Since 1990 Tong-Tai had very close technical cooperation with Hitachi Seiki, one of the leading machine tool builders in Japan. Starting 1998, Tong-Tai was manufacturing and assembling machines for Hitachi Seiki, on an OEM basis, for export to USA, Japan and the world. Tong-Tai is also one of the few Taiwanese machine tool builders with ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certification.
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