Bourn & Koch to host open house during IMTS week

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The global manufacturing community is invited to receive a behind-the-scenes look into how precision machine tools are being built, right here in America, during the Bourn & Koch “Made in America” open house on Wednesday, September 12 and Friday, September 14, 2018.

Tours will be in Rockford, Illinois, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. both days of the open house. Included in the tours will be a display of select original prints from Blanchard, Fellows, Springfield, DeVlieg, Bullard, Barber Coleman, and other brands that Bourn & Koch, as OEM for 35 American machine tool brands, is curating.

Full factory tours during the event include the 130,000-square-foot shop floor where Bourn & Koch remanufactures classic American machine tools to OEM specifications and also builds new Springfield vertical grinders, Blanchard rotary grinders, Bourn & Koch gear hobbers, Fellows shapers, and DeVlieg milling machines with the latest technology and designs. A highlight of the tour will be demonstrations of a newly redesigned and reengineered Blanchard 22AD-42 rotary surface grinder.

Resident historian, engineer, and Bourn & Koch co-founder Loyd Koch, will be greeting visitors during the two-day Rockford event. Light refreshments and beverages will be served. RSVP to Tyler Free at Bourn & Koch: tfree@bourn-koch.com.

Bourn & Koch is in Rockford’s industrial zone, approximately 90 miles from McCormick Place. For those who cannot attend the open house during IMTS, other tour dates are available by appointment request.

Bourn & Koch will also be exhibiting at IMTS 2018 at Booth #236854 (North building, level 3). The company will be showcasing its full line of machine tool solutions including the Springfield VBG vertical grinder, a fully automated Fellows 10-4 gear shaper, Bourn & Koch 100H-T turning and hobbing center, and Blanchard 8AD-12 surface grinder. The Springfield VBG offers precision grinding down to 0.0001” as well as integrated vertical turning for single-step production and in-process inspection.

The remanufactured Fellows 10-4 integrates patented electronic crowning and taper technology, BKI-S-HMI and Easy Automate enclosure for standard 3-axis (or optional 6-axis) CNC gear shaping with Fanuc 0i control. The Fellows 10-4 is an affordable way for job shops to introduce high-quality gear manufacturing to their operations. New to the machine is electronic helical guide capability. The machine will be demonstrated with a Halter robot for auto-loading.

The Bourn & Koch 100H-T gear hobber with seven-station turning turret is capable of turning, boring, and hobbing up to AGMA Class-13 gears in one setup to save floor space, reduce overall cycle times and increase workpiece accuracy. Shipped with patent-pending Adjustable Hob Arbor Spacers and BKI-H-HMI, the machine allows easy setup, programming and manufacturing by novice operators.

The Blanchard 8AD-12 surface grinder is an iconic machine tool, producing the characteristic “Blanchard Grind” synonymous with quality ground parts. Like the Blanchard 22AD-42 being demonstrated at the “Made in America” Rockford open house, the smaller Blanchard 8AD-12 in the Bourn & Koch booth at IMTS is re-imagined and re-engineered to meet today’s manufacturing challenges.

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