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Accu-Systems is the one stop shop for all of your solid wood needs from ACCU-COMM software that links up to your order entry system to panel processing and stile and rail machining. We also build an impressive line of Dowel insertion machines. Never forget, well over 50% of our business is building custom machinery to fit customers needs. We currently produce 30+ custom machines per year. We employ in house mechanical and software engineers that can drive these projects thru to completion, not to mention a state of the art Machine shop and production facility.
We have been making machinery since 1983 and currently produce over 130 machines per year. We employee 35 people in our Salt Lake faculty and 3 full time sales managers around the country. We work through 40+ machinery dealerships in North America to help us spread the word.
All our machines use CNC technology; our newest machines use a SynqNet controller, we develop in a programming language named C#, this keeps us on the leading edge when it comes to developing our software. When it comes to mechanical design we use a 3D design software called SolidWorks, this allows us to design even the smallest of assemblies to full blown double sided feedthrus with ease.
A little word on our "stock” machines, we typically have HPJ’s, MMTJ’s, MMTX’s, and MTH’s in stock, we are constantly improving these machines and updating their components to insure we remain the world’s leaders in the industry.
We have experience with dowels insertion, boring, sawing, haunching, coping, dovetailing, routing, mitering, mortising, louver grooving, and tenoning. If you have an application that is outside of these mentioned please contact one of our salesman, we love a challenge.
We are located in Salt Lake City Utah, Just 20 minutes south of SLC international airport. Between our 3 buildings we have over 50,000 square feet of shop space and 8,000 square feet of office space. Our newest building was completed in June of 2006; this is where most of our manufacturing is done. We have divided this building up in to 5 separate departments, the Machine Shop, Metal Fabrication Shop, Paint, Assembly, and Stock Room.
Our Machine Shop consists of 7 vertical CNC achining centers and 1 CNC lathe. We also have 5 manual mills and 3 manual lathes. We use a 3D cam software package called GibbsCam to program our NC machining centers and NC lathe. This software accepts solid 3D imports from SolidWorks this allows flexibility and speed to change over from one job to the next.
In our Fabrication Department we produce all of our custom frames; they are fabricated of structural tubular steel. We combine the processes of welding and CNC machining to our frame and frame rails to ensure accuracy and strength. By manufacturing these frames in house we can maintain our quality and ensure that we are always delivering a quality machine.
Our Assembly Department consists of 10 extremely talented mechanically inclined individuals. They range from 20-45 years old and collectively have over 100 years of hands on experience.
We have 3 different kinds of machines "Custom”, "Semi Special” and "Standard”. Our production schedule varies for these types of machines. Our definitions are as follows:
For our "Custom” machines this is how they are scheduled, we figure out an estimated amount of time it will need to be in Mechanical Engineering. After this time period is complete it takes 1 week to compile a Bill of Materials (both Electrical and Mechanical), purchasing takes less than 1 week, we allow for 4 weeks receiving parts. During this 4 week time period the frame is being fabricated and the "Accu” made parts are being made. Assembly time for these machines is 2-3 weeks. During this assembly time period the Software Engineers are creating the software. To wrap up the project from there takes 1-2 weeks of "testing & tuning”. These machines require a "Run off” where the customer confirms the machine meets their requirements. Finally we can ship and install this machine. All in all this process takes between 9-14 weeks from when we can start. We have around 8 of these types of projects in the works at any given time.
"Semi Special” machines are very similar to the "Customs” in their scheduling. If the machine is exact in every way to a machine we have produced before then we allow 4 weeks to make sure we have all the specifications correct on the machine. Then we allow 1 week for purchasing and 4 weeks for receiving parts. During this 4 week time period the frame is being fabricated and the "Accu” made parts are being made. Assembly time for these machines is 2-3 weeks. To wrap up the project from there it takes 1-2 weeks of "testing & tuning”.
"Standard” machines are usually in stock, if not the lead time is usually no greater than 6 weeks.
ACCU-LINK is used to combine orders together and create cut lists from the customers Order Entry or Design System...
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