How’s Your Machine’s Health?

How’s Your Machine’s Health?

With qualified workers in short supply these days, chances are good that you’ve been letting your Preventative Maintenance Plan slide, that is if you even have one. C&B has been in business since 1980 and specializes in new and re-engineered double-disc grinding machines.

We have many years of experience working with top automotive companies and suppliers with many different makes and models of grinding machines. Let C&B work with you to create a Preventative Maintenance Plan for your grinding machines that will minimize downtime and keep you producing quality parts. After you have a plan, we can perform the maintenance, or provide documentation for you to follow. PM YOUR GRINDER, because in today’s challenging business environment, you can’t afford to be down!

Machine Services Provided

    • Preventative Maintenance
    • Machine Inspection
    • Machine Set-Up and Operator Training
    • Machine Alignment – Spindles, Dresser, Guides, and Tooling

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Hiring Problems…Time to Automate!

Hiring Problems…Time to Automate!

With the current labor shortage and cost, it may be time to justify moving up from the single-sided labor-intensive Surface and Blanchard grinding and take that leap into Single and Double Disc Grinding with C&B Machinery.

Case Example:

A Full-time dedicated operator was needed to load/unload and grind Push Rod Seats on a Blanchard grinder to get 500 parts per hour.

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Solution:

C&B built a custom Single Disc grinder complete with automatic load and unload which only required 20% of the operator’s time and increased their productivity to 3600 parts per hour.

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The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

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On August 17, 2020, Orbitform, along with its group of investors, acquired C&B Machinery. C&B Machinery will stay a separate entity with its own staff and facility with additional backing from the skilled manufacturing team at Orbitform. Orbitform looks forward to working with and supporting our highly skilled team.

C&B Machinery is an industry leader providing world-class precision disc grinding and metal removal equipment solutions. We are well known for our double disc grinding equipment, which is an efficient method of removing equal stock from opposing faces of a part. This process results in the highest quality level of flatness and parallelism on both opposing surfaces.

C&B Machinery has supported numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace, and hand tools. They offer new and re-engineered disc grinding and metal removal equipment. Their re-engineered machines include used machines retrofitted with the newest mechanical and control standards, rebuilt after a complete inspection to like-new condition, or some combination of both to provide the most cost-effective solution.

C&B Machinery’s new President Bill Tulpa adds, “We intend to carry on the heritage that C&B Machinery established over the last 40 years. I look forward to working with the existing, highly skilled C&B team to grow the business.”

Please visit the Orbitform website to gain a better understanding of their offerings and manufacturing capabilities. C&B Machinery is excited to have a growing team of manufacturing leaders to assist in propelling our business forward!

C&B Machinery Expands the Models and Features Available on Its Line of CBV Series Clamp Bore Grinders.

C&B Machinery Expands the Models and Features Available on Its Line of CBV Series Clamp Bore Grinders.

C&B Machinery’s lineup of Vertical Clamp Bore micro-finishing grinders has been expanded yet again! C&B continues to strive to be an industry leader in meeting customers’ ever-growing needs for flexibility, throughput volumes, integration with plant automation, and maximizing perishable tooling life.

Our single spindle models can be an economical choice for lower volumes and lower tooling costs.  Our double spindle models work well for applications where different work holding at each station has advantages and volumes are a bit higher.  To the other extreme, our rotary index models can offer tooling flexibility and the very highest level of throughput.

We now offer a higher-speed grinding spindle option to maximize efficiency for customers using CBN grinding wheels vs. conventional free-cutting, self-dressing vitrified wheels.

The CBV Series offers multiple part handling options including operator hand load/unload, robotics integration (Fanuc Authorized Integrator), gantry load/unload with part flipping capabilities, and in-process gauging with load pre-check for stock and runout.  The gauge fixture is designed for quick adjustments with no tools required. Software is designed for control of stock removal on each side and part orientation entering or exiting the cell. Error proofing for part load and part type can also be designed into this system.

For more information on this grinding system and other disc grinding solutions, please contact us directly by phone at +1 248-264-9800 or email us at sales@cbmachinery.com.