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STUDER hands over 125th S33 to MAPAL Präzisionswerkzeuge Dr.
Kress KG
 Just
over a year after launching the S33 universal CNC grinding
machine on the market, Fritz Studer AG, Thun, has now
finished the 125th machine of this type. The customer is MAPAL
Präzisionswerkzeuge, Dr. Kress KG. To mark this milestone, a
special ceremony was staged at the
STUDER premises in Thun on August 26 to hand over this
machine personally to Dr. Kress, the owner and manager of
MAPAL.
"The
overwhelming success of the S33 was something of a surprise to
us. Our goal was to create a highly flexible CNC machine as a
starter model in STUDER quality at an appealing price and to
offer an extensive range of optional accessories so the
machine could be adapted to the customer’s specific needs. We
came up with a number of innovations to assure the easiest
possible programming and operation. For instance, the
S33 can be converted from a shaft part to a chuck part in
less than 2 minutes. Apparently we created just the machine
our customers were looking for," said Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop,
managing director of Fritz Studer AG, in his welcome speech.
MAPAL
Präzisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG first opened its doors for
business in 1950 with an idea that was revolutionary at time:
processing boreholes with cutting reamers. Over the years
MAPAL has developed into a full-range supplier of tools for
cubic finished parts. Headquartered in Aalen, MAPAL now has
more than 20 subsidiaries worldwide and over 2300 employees.
With its strong corporate culture of innovation, the company
has an extensive range of services as well as production sites
which are close and responsive to customers. These traits
should continue to assure its success in the future.
MAPAL and
STUDER have been close partners for 27 years. Over these
nearly three decades, MAPAL has bought a total of 176 STUDER
grinding machines, which operate today in MAPAL factories
around the globe. But this collaboration has gone far beyond
machine purchases. The demanding tasks involved in the
production of precision tools have given rise to new ideas
time and again, ideas that, in turn, led to new functions and
subassemblies on STUDER machines. The two partners have also
taken new approaches in after sales services. For instance,
services between MAPAL and STUDER are now billed in an annual
lump-sum, which is then adjusted in the following year on the
basis of the actual results. Experience gained in this area
gave rise to new service products at STUDER, such as STUDER
Service Subscriptions, STUDER Service Agreements and STUDER
Product Support. All three of these products are highly
successful today.
"Throughout
all those many years STUDER always listened carefully to us
and was able to implement many of our requests and ideas. This
is just one more reason that I have remained so loyal to
STUDER all these years," explained Dr. Kress at the hand-over
ceremony.
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