Complete plant list for Thomas Keating Toolmaking

  • Computer Aided Design (CAD)
    • 4 x Pro/Engineer CREO seats on Dell Workstations
    • 1 x  A0 Plotter
    • 1 x Dell 3110CN Colour Laser Printer
    • 1 x HP 4P 600dpi Laser Printer
    • 1 HP Office Jet K7100 A3 Colour Printer
  • Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM)
  • 6x Dell Workstations PC's running EdgeCAM  for Wire Erosion, Turning and Milling with seamless links to CAD.
  • Wire Erosion
    • 1 x AgieCharmilles Cut P350 Pro sited in a TCA.
    • 1 x Agie AC Progress VP2 Wire EDM machine sited in a TCA.  [no re-cast layer]produced)Table movement X350mm Y250mm Z256mm. Tank capacity X750mm Y550mm 30° maximum/side over H100mm and 17° maximum/side to H180mm .
    • 1 x Agiecut Classic 2S Wire EDM machine sited in a TCA. Table movement X350mm Y250mm Z250mm. Tank capacity X750mm Y550mm. 30° maximum/side over H100mm and 17° maximum/side to H180mm .
  • CNC Erosion
    • 1 x Agie Integral 2 Spark Erosion Machine sited in a TCA.
    • 1 x Agietron 1U Spark Erosion Machine sited in a TCA.
    • 1 x Agietron Compact 1 Spark Erosion Machine sited in a TCA.
  • Fast hole drilling
    • 1 x Sodick EDM fast hole drill
  • Manual Erosion
    • 2 x Charmille D.10 Spark Erosion Machines sited in a TCA.
  • CNC Jig Grinding
    • 1 x Moore CNC CP 8400 Jig Grinder sited in a TCA.
    • 1 x Moore CNC CP Fanuc control sited in a TCA.
    • 1 x Moore CNC CP4 axis 1050 Fanuc controller sited in a TCA

      All above having table movement of Y457mm X279mm H400mm (from table to nose). Ancillary equipment, 1 off Moore Integrated NC Rotary Table

  • Jig Grinding
    • 3 x Moore/Catmur Jig Grinders sited in a TCA. Machining capacity Y420mm X254mm H400mm (from table to nose)

      Ancillary equipment, spin and rotary tables and full Moore accessory kit.

  • Optical Profile Grind
    • 1 x Wickman Optical Profile Grinder sited in a TCA.
  • Surface Grinding
    • 11 x Jones & Shipman 540 Surface Grinders
    • 1 x Jones & Shipman 1540 Surface Grinder
    • 7 x Optidress attachments
    • 2 x Scopes
    • 1 x Jacobsen 1832 Surface Grinder complete with hydraulic wheel dresser
  • Universal Grinding
    • 1 x 1212 Jones & Shipman Cylindrical grinder
    • 1 x 1311 Jones & Shipman universal grinder -  work holding capacity diameter 240mm, length300mm.
  • CNC Turning
    • 1 x Hardinge Super Precision Turning Centre with Fagor controller
    • 1 x Doosan Puma GT3100 CNC lathe, Y axis control with Fanuc controller. Diameter 481mm Over saddle diameter 315mm. Length 755mm, Boring 350mm
    • 1 x DMG Gildermeister CTX 400 CNC Lathe with live tooling, Fanuc controller. Diameter 250mm. Length 600mm. Boring 350mm
    • 1 x Doosan Puma 2600Y CNC lathe, Y axis control with Fanuc controller. Y axis control and live tooling.  Diameter 300mm. Length 600mm. Boring 350mm.
  • Manual Turning
    • 1 x Harrison Large Lathe
    • 2 x Hardinge High Speed Precision Lathe
    • 2 x Harrison Lathe M300 complete with readout
  • CNC Milling
    • 1 x DMG 50V Table movement X500mm Y400mm Z500mm Max spindle speed 15,000 rpm -  Ancillary equipment 80,000 rpm electronic head
    • 2 x Bostomatic 32GS. Machining movement of X 810mm Y410 Z510mm Maximum spindle speed 30,000 rpm. With 5 axis machining capabilities. Supported by 3R pallet system.1 x
    • Matsuura MC-550VG. Machining movement of X550mm Y441 Z500mm Table capacity of X860mm Y441mm  spindle speed 15,000 rpm
    • 1 x Huron K2X10 high speed milling machine, working envelope X1000mm Y800mm Z500mm, Renishaw touch probe, Hiendenhain iTNC530 control, 20 pocket tool changer.
    • 1 x XYZ SMX4000 offering travel in X 1000mm, Y 596mm and Z 540mm.  Table size 1470mm x 356mm  5000 rpm spindle speed
  • Manual Milling
    • 1 x Bridgeport BR2J Milling Machine with digital readouts and all ancillary equipment
  • Jig Boring
    • 1 x SIP Jig Borer 2
    • 1 x SIP Jig Borer 1H
  • Inspection (CMM)
    • Brown and Sharpe DCC having a measuring capacity of X559mm Y750mm Z483mm and sited in a TCA
  • Drilling
    • 1 x Aciera Co-ordinate Drilling Machine complete with digital readout
    • 1 x Radial Drilling Machine
    • 1 x Pedestal Drill
  • Sawing
    • 1 x Doall Bandsaw
  • Others
    • 1 x Delapena hone
    • 1 x Taylor Hobson Engraving Machine


Usual Tool room Inspection equipment including Rockwell Hardness Tester, Parnum Electronic Gauge, Nikon Toolmakers' Microscope, Mitutoyo Toolmakers' Microscope, Tesa Internal Micrometers, Hommel Height Gauges, etc.

For more details contact us.