A Masterwood Winner 2.45S CNC machining centre is living up to its name at fitted bedroom furniture manufacturer Neat Line.
Since its introduction, the Greater Manchester firm says the machine has transformed production, speeding up work and bringing the machining of certain components back in-house.
It is now making components for a firm it previously bought from, as well as subcontracting the Winner to local panel processors.
Previously, manufacture was by traditional pin routers and manual drills.
Chris Griffin, who runs the £1m turnover business with brothers George and Anthony, said flexibility was the Winner’s main advantage.
He said: ‘As we do so many different shapes and sizes of panels we can switch from one piece to another very quickly and just change the programme to the one required.’
Headboards which previously took 20-30 minutes just to set up the jig now take two to three minutes for the whole job.
Extras on Neat Line’s Winner are the CN 12 computer system to operate two router heads plus a saw motor for making grooving cuts.
