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CNC Machine Servicing Experts
At Machine Tool Technologies, we are committed to delivering quality CNC machine servicing. As a customer, your requirements are our top priority. Our team of experienced engineers and highly skilled technicians will work quickly and efficiently to ensure your equipment always performs optimally.
Machine Tool Technologies’ specialists focus on providing you with quality services and long-lasting manufacturing solutions. Our team have relevant and updated technical know-how together with the latest instrumentation. Our focal point is finding clear-cut solutions, so you can concentrate on delivering product.
What Are Your CNC Machine Servicing Needs?
We are experts in:
Analysing and improving your existing processes: Our CNC Machine servicing processes help you determine the most efficient and profitable way to manufacture your products, whatever they may be. Our highly knowledgeable team will create a plan, provide programming, assemble tool requirements, and conduct pilot article runs to determine efficiency.
Scheduled Servicing: Our service contracts are tailored to your specific needs. Highly skilled service teams deliver timely and cost-efficient checks for different models of CNC machines at pre-scheduled times to optimise efficiency and minimise down-time.
CNC accuracy optimisation: MTT provides on-site calibration services using innovative metrology techniques. We also use the detailed analysis of your machine tool’s specific characteristics to repair the CNC control.
Maintenance that mitigates future lapses: Down time can be costly especially when you lose production unexpectedly due to lack of CNC machine servicing. With MTT you get standard routine service that is customised for your equipment.
Tech support and machine health checks: We collaborate with your in-house engineers to understand your production needs and assist in refining the process. Assessing routine performance will help us optimise the performance of your equipment.
On-site and off-site customer training: We have partnered with the University of Huddersfield to create a variety of CNC Machine Tool metrology and maintenance. Typically these courses will run from 2-days to 5-weeks, according to your requirements.
Equipment relocation and installation: At Machine Tool Technologies, we conduct detailed checks to record accuracy before we dismantle and relocate CNC machinery. Once re-assembled and installed, our team will level, align, re-check and re-calibrate your equipment to ensure optimal performance.
CNC retrofit and mechanical rebuild: Our team of engineers will help enhance machine performance at a significantly reduced cost. Retrofitting allows you to improve productivity on existing machines without the expensive cost of replacements.
Spare replacement: MTT parts replacement specialists can help you locate and replace OEM quality parts. We can also help you locate discontinued parts, customised inventory, and find solutions for recurrent faults.
Case studies
What happens on a CNC service visit
A service is a planned visit with a fixed list of checks, carried out at a time that suits your production. A typical visit covers:
- Scheduled inspections and component checks
- Cleaning, lubrication and wear control
- Realignment and backlash verification
- Electrical and software diagnostics
- Machine calibration and geometry checks
- Spindle inspection
Every service is delivered with full diagnostic documentation, so you have a record of the machine’s condition and of anything that needs attention before it becomes a breakdown.
How we set up a service contract
Before we write a maintenance agreement we audit the number of machines you run and the complexity of the engineering work each one needs. The agreement is then built around your manufacturing environment and your shift pattern. You can choose:
- A contracted plan, with periodic servicing, full reporting and prioritised support
- A one-off service, which suits post-installation checks, holiday shutdown work or a visit aimed at a specific fault
Between visits, simple operator checks make a real difference. Daily checks of hydraulic pressure, fluid and lubrication levels and swarf clearance, with filters and the coolant tank looked at every three and six months, keep small problems from growing. Our engineers can show your team what to check, and formal courses developed with the University of Huddersfield run from two days to five weeks.
Measured, not assumed
We use laser measurement to check accuracy during servicing, including the Renishaw XM-60, which measures errors in six degrees of freedom along a linear axis from a single set-up. That shortens the time a machine is out of production for calibration.
For machines that cannot afford an unplanned stop, our Sensor Toolkit monitors vibration, temperature and current between services. At the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Precision Technologies it flagged a rise in spindle vibration on a Cincinnati machine. The fault, a loose encoder connection, was diagnosed in about five minutes and an engineer fixed it within two hours. Read the Sensor Toolkit case study.
Machines and brands we service
We service CNC lathes, milling machines, machining centres, routers and EDM machines, and work on all major brands including Mazak, DMG Mori, Haas, Matsuura, Doosan and Okuma, with Siemens, Fanuc and Heidenhain controls. See the full list of CNC brands we support.
Who we are
Machine Tool Technologies has been servicing machine tools since 2001. Our engineers come from both machine tool manufacturers and independent service companies. Our quality system is registered to ISO 9001, and we hold ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. Visits are planned from our head office in Chorley, Lancashire and cover the whole of the UK.
If a service finds a fault that needs more than adjustment, we can move straight to CNC machine repair, spindle repair or a longer-term machine tool maintenance plan.
Frequently asked questions
What is included in a CNC machine service?
Scheduled inspections and component checks, cleaning and lubrication, realignment and backlash verification, electrical and software diagnostics, calibration and geometry checks and a spindle inspection. Every service comes with full diagnostic documentation.
How often should a CNC machine be serviced?
It depends on how hard the machine works. We set the schedule after auditing your machines and the work they do, and plan visits around your production so the machine is not taken out of use at a busy time.
Do I have to take out a service contract?
No. We offer contracted plans with periodic servicing and prioritised support, and we also carry out one-off services, for example after an installation or during a holiday shutdown.
Which makes of CNC machine do you service?
All major brands, including Mazak, DMG Mori, Haas, Matsuura, Doosan and Okuma, and machines with Siemens, Fanuc and Heidenhain controls. We are an independent provider, so one engineer team can cover a mixed machine shop.
Can you train our own maintenance staff?
Yes. Our engineers can train your operators in routine checks on site, and we offer machine tool metrology and maintenance courses developed with the University of Huddersfield, running from two days to five weeks.
What areas do you cover?
The whole of the UK. Work is coordinated from our head office in Chorley, Lancashire and planned region by region. See our UK locations.
Make a booking for CNC Machine Servicing Today
Machine Tool Technologies are committed to serving you promptly and professionally. From installation to spare parts, our highly experienced team of engineers will ensure that your equipment is performing optimally.
To speak to a member of our team, get in touch via our contact page or by calling 0845 077 9345.
Machine Tool Technologies are committed to serving you promptly and professionally. From installation to spare parts, our highly experienced team of engineers will ensure that your equipment is performing optimally.
To speak to a member of our team, get in touch via our contact page and we will respond as soon as we can.
“MTT Successfully repaired several spindles within a short period time ensuring our
machines were back to full productivity in no time.”