Air & Coolant Filtration For The Modern Machining Environment
Total Filtration Solutions Ltd provide a range of world-class air & coolant filtration systems to aid engineering & manufacturing businesses maintain their HSE obligations and ensure efficient & safe
working environments.
CNC Coolant & Mist Filtration
Brown & Holmes (Tamworth Group Ltd (our parent company) have been leaders in precision engineering for 85 years.
Throughout that time, significant changes to manufacturing techniques have come to the fore, particularly with the rise of 3 and 5 axis CNC machines. Not only do these provide the ability to mass produce parts with low levels of deviation, but also allow engineers more flexibility in what they are able to achieve in terms of precision and materials.
Due to this, maintaining & running them has become increasingly important – with tooling, components and reliability depending heavily on the ability of the machine to run correctly. Filtration plays a significant role in that process, and is something a lot of machining companies pay little attention to.
Total Filtration Solutions Ltd aims to provide effective & innovative solutions to CNC manufacturers to help reduce waste, maintain tooling quality and extend the life of their machines through appropriate filtration technology.
Importance Of Filtration
If CNC machining forms part of your manufacturing process, either on-premises or part of a wider supply chain, maintaining the machines will contribute to any cost savings you may be able to achieve.
In the case of larger processes, where there is a requirement for continuous machining, or higher volume runs, the fidelity of the tooling, components and underlying health of the machines will, therefore, have a direct influence on the profitability of your operation.
Filtering the coolant of the machines, or the air/fumes they produce, is one of several ways this can be achieved. How it’s done will depend on the solutions used, but the underlying efficiency improvements, and savings, will, essentially, lead to machines that can produce at very high quality for longer: –
- Coolant Filtration – When a CNC machine operates, liquid is sometimes used to cool the tools that are performing the cutting. The liquid is collected after being sprayed and re-used if required. As the coolant can sometimes have metallic particles contained within it, if these particles are not filtered out before being used again, the particles may damage the part you are manufacturing.
- Air Filtration – Moreso to help protect the health & wellbeing of the machine operators, there are often instances where air based contaminants are created from the machining process. In order to protect both the worker and any potential contamination of your manufactured part, filtering the air (and removing any submicron particles) is an extremely effective way to increase the health & wellbeing of the workforce.
Investing into the underlying ability to maintain the quality of both will not only help with compliance with increase HSE oversight, but will ensure higher precision & low defects of your drilling process whilst creating a safer and more welcoming environment for your operators. It’s particularly important with large volumes.
