Customer stories and Spanflug references
Since our foundation in 2018, thousands of customers from a wide range of industries have purchased their custom machined parts via Spanflug or have benefited from our quoting software. Here, some of our customers speak about their experience with Spanflug and how our solutions help their companies to become more efficient and competitive.
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Read what our customers say about how our fast, automated processes have saved them efforts and money when procuring custom machined parts.
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Some technically challenging parts that we have manufactured for our customers.
Housing for a scanning tunneling microscope, which is used at the Research Center for Nanomeasurement Technology (LENA) at the TU Braunschweig. The microscope can be used to visualize individual atoms and molecules. Maximum precision is therefore required for the turning and milling parts. It was manufactured from the high-quality material titanium grade 5 (Ti6AI4V), is approx. 90 mm long and has a diameter of 150 mm.
Two parts forming the core component of this vacuum table were manufactured by Spanflug. The vacuum table is located at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the University of Münster and enables the precise and even clamping of large-format printed circuit boards for an assembly process. The assembly parts are sucked in evenly and securely over the entire surface via 1,680 precision-milled suction channels. High precision is also crucial when milling the two aluminum base plates, on which the end products are manufactured. These are 1,200 x 1,200 mm in size and have a roughness Ra <= 0.25 µm and a flatness < 0.15 mm.
Spanflug manufactured this customized probe carrier for use in the mobile hollow shaft testing system from Arxes-Tolina, which is used for non-destructive material testing on installed wheelsets in the railroad sector. The probe carrier is used to hold spring-mounted ultrasonic probes. The highly sophisticated milling-turning part, with complex clamping and very high material removal, is 122.5 mm long, has a diameter of 51 mm and was machined from aluminum AlMgSi1. The illustration also shows the attachment parts responsible for holding the probes. These were also manufactured by Spanflug and mounted on the probe carrier.
The X-Act 325 electromagnetic shaker is used universally for vibration testing and modal analysis in component testing. Its compact size and low weight also make it suitable for mobile use. MB Dynamics was able to concentrate on system development, while Spanflug took over manufacturing coordination. The costs of the assembly could already be calculated and optimized during development. The assembly consisted of several turning and milling parts made of structural steel and four different aluminum alloys. Anodizing and powder coating were used as post-treatment processes.
This stainless steel valve housing is used for a mixing valve in the beverage industry. The high surface quality of the inner surfaces posed a particular challenge. This is necessary so that the housings can be cleaned fully automatically. In addition, 80% machining volume with undercuts and close tolerances on the inside of the part made of 1.4404 is always a special task.
This crystal holder for laser optics was milled from copper and then coated with gold. The part was ordered by Lastronics. The company specializes in laser diode technologies as part of large laser systems and ordered this milling part as a tailor-made solution for one of its customized systems developed and manufactured in individual or small series.
