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RITEN INDUSTRIES RE-INVENTS THE LIVE CENTER!
New Products
Riten Industries introduces the "Blue Typhoon"! The Blue Typhoon is a technologically advanced live center, designed to add speed and efficiency to workholding operations. It was developed to solve many of the operating problems experienced with traditional live centers. The Typhoon features an exclusive quad seal design which prevents coolant and other foreign materials from contacting the bearings, eliminating the contamination problems experienced with ordinary live centers. The patent pending design features precision ceramic bearings. Ceramic bearings run cooler at high speeds promoting longer service life while maintaining accuracies up to +/- .00005. The bearings also enhance the rigidity of the center, minimizing deflection and chatter. The Blue Typhoon's 12,000 RPM rating is unsurpassed in the industry, making it especially suitable for hard turning and other high speed applications.
The Blue Typhoon is offered in 4MT and 5MT tapers, with a choice of standard, tracer or long point spindles.
Success Stories
Center Survey Program
In today's economic environment, companies are looking at all possibilities when it comes to cutting costs and improving productivity. In response to customer needs, Riten has developed an in-plant survey program that helps manufacturers gain control of live and dead center inventories and reduce costs.Riten, along with a well-known Midwest cutting tool distributor, assisted a large power- generation manufacturer in taking control of their center inventory. The manufacturer was using six different live and dead center vendors before the survey took place and was spending approximately $100,000 per year maintaining their inventory. The Riten Regional Manager and the Distributor Salesman spent four days inside the plant evaluating each machine and its applications. Working closely with the Plant Manager, Riten recommended the most cost-effective solution: eliminate duplicate tooling, implement a serialization tracking program for repairs and repair what was already on hand. Repairing the items on hand allowed the manufacturer to manage his cash flow and trade-in items as they became unrepairable. Broken competitor live centers were identified and crossed over to Riten live centers. A generous trade-in allowance on the broken products helped to further conserve cash.The customer was given a binder identifying each machining cell, the proper centers for each application, CAD drawings for any custom centers and a fixed annual cost for each center. Repair pricing and trade-in allowance are also guaranteed for one year. The distributor received a CD-ROM with all of the information for each machining cell to further allow them to help monitor the end-users center inventory.After twelve months, the manufacturer realized a total cost savings of $30,000 and cut center-related machine down time to zero. This program has created a symbiotic relationship between Riten and the manufacturer benefiting both companies. We are currently working on two other manufacturing locations for this customer. They believe that the downtime reduction and increase in productivity has helped to give them a competitive advantage.For more information, please contact Riten's customer service department and request our new repair and center survey brochure.