Waldmann Is Global Choice For Yamazaki Mazak
Yamazaki Mazak, the world's largest machine tool manufacturer, fits Waldmann machine tool lights on all of its Mazak Nexus VCN machining centres and QTN CNC lathes wherever in the world they are made.
For the European market, Waldman Lighting UK in Leeds supplies RL70 tube lights and smaller AWDE pot lights to Yamazaki Mazak's European manufacturing facility in Worcester.
Waldmann was able to meet Yamazaki Mazak's requirements for size, output, lighting profile and voltage with an off-the-shelf product, says Waldmann Lighting UK's Managing Director, Graeme Hall.
"We are increasingly being asked to provide lighting systems to meet very precise specifications. We can produce bespoke lights if necessary, but most requirements can be met from our very extensive range of standard models and options," explains Graeme.
As well as Waldmann's ability to match Mazak's required specification, quality and reliability were also key deciding factors. According to Kevin Price, Electrical and Electronic buyer at Yamazaki Mazak UK, the Waldmann Lights have excelled in both these areas.
"The quality of goods received from Waldmann is my responsibility, " says Kevin, " and in the time that we have been dealing with Waldmann we haven't had to return anything. We haven't had any field failures either – I would get to hear about them pretty quickly if we had.",P> Good illumination is essential on any machine tool to ensure error-free setting, inspection and maintenance, but the cutting zone of a machine tool is an extreme and hostile environment for any form of lighting.
The Waldmann lights are designed to withstand constant flushing with coolant and damage from hot or sharp chips while meeting and exceeding all the requirements of EN 1837. This is the European Machinery Directive on machine lighting and calls for at least 500 lux to be delivered to the working area with no glare, shadowing or stroboscopic effect.
The RL70 lights supplied to Yamazaki Mazak comprise a compact 36W fluorescent tube in a waterproof borosilicate glass enclosure and a flicker-free electronic ballast. The AWDE is a small boro-silicate glass pot light with an 18W compact lamp, again with a flicker-free electronic ballast, and fitted with a parabolic reflecting louvre to give glare-free directional lighting.
Source: Waldmann Lighting UK