ISO 9001:2015 · IATF 16949 supply through Versatile · Kolhapur, India

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Precision machining and process control · Kolhapur, India

Anyone can make one good piece. The thousandth one is the test

Turned and milled components built to your print. Cut in one clamping wherever the part allows it, proved on a coordinate measuring machine and a contour tester, and held with control charts and capability studies rather than sorted at final inspection.

315mmChuck, with 106 mm bar through the spindle
600×500×500Prismatic envelope, horizontal centre
1200mmBetween centres on the turning centres
ISO9001:2015IATF 16949 supplied through Versatile

What we make

Valve bodies, glands, shafts, bushes and fittings

Most of the work is fluid power and flow control: sealing surfaces and precision bores, in quantities where the first piece proves nothing and the process has to. Automotive and powertrain parts run alongside it, supplied under Versatile Equipments’ IATF 16949 certification.

Machined steel hydraulic valve body with cross-drilled portingHydraulic valve bodiesand manifold blocks
Machined glands and pistons for double acting hydraulic cylindersCylinder glandsand pistons
High precision shafts with cut keyways and splined endsPrecision shaftskeyways and splines
Precision machined guide bush with a ground boreBushes and glandsand wear parts
Turned brass and bronze couplers with machined sealing facesBrass and bronzecouplers and fittings

On the machine

Every setup removed is an error nobody has to chase

Turn a part on one machine and mill it on another, and the difference between two fixtures ends up on your drawing. The turn-mill centre takes bar to 106 mm through the spindle and cuts flats, cross holes and keyways while the part is still gripped, so the relationship between turned and milled features is settled by the machine rather than by a re-clamp.

01

Turned complete

Bar through the spindle, driven tooling on the turret, and the part comes off finished. Fewer handling steps also means fewer picked-up burrs and fewer witness marks on a sealing face.

Working envelopes
02

Prismatic on the horizontal

A horizontal spindle lets swarf fall clear instead of packing against the tool, which is why valve bodies and cast iron housings run better there than on a vertical.

Working envelopes
03

Hardened without leaving site

Scanning and spot induction hardening in house, with hardness checked here too. A journal is hardened and verified without the part going out to a third party and coming back late.

Working envelopes
04

Bought out, built, shipped

Castings, forgings, sheet metal and mouldings pulled in through a vendor base of over 700 suppliers, then machined, assembled, tested and packed against one part number.

Beyond machining

In the inspection room

A gauge that cannot resolve the tolerance will condemn good parts

The measurement system gets proved before the process is judged. After that the instrument is matched to whatever actually decides the part, which is rarely the diameter everyone quotes.

Coordinate measuring
Geometry and true position taken against the drawing, on an Accurate Spectra CMM with a Renishaw probe.
Contour testing
A seal groove passes a caliper on width and depth and still leaks. The Mahr MarSurf reads the profile, which is the thing that holds the seal.
Surface roughness
A sealing face at the wrong Ra will weep however round the bore is. Measured with a Mitutoyo SJ-410.
Air gauging
Fast enough to check every piece in a batch rather than the first one and the last one, which is the difference between believing a process is capable and knowing it.
Hardness
Checked on site, so induction hardening is closed out where it was done.

Between the first piece and the last

In tolerance is a result. In control is a process

A process that is merely in tolerance today says nothing about the third shift on Thursday. Control charts show drift as a trend while there is still time to act on it, and a capability study says whether the tolerance ever had room in it. Where a problem will not yield to that, the method is chosen to fit it rather than reached for out of habit.

Send the drawing

A straight answer inside a working day

A 2D or 3D file, the quantity and the date you need it. You will get a considered reply within one working day, including the reply that we are not the right shop for the part, which is worth knowing early. A mutual NDA goes out first if you would rather.