Computerized Numerical Control Machine Tools: Ability to Support Timely Product Delivery Underlines Their Popularity, Says Frost & Sullivan

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Computerized Numerical Control Machine

Tools: Ability to Support Timely Product

Delivery Underlines Their Popularity, Says

Frost & Sullivan

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 13, 2012

- Buoyant second-hand market threatens however to undermine sales

of newer CNC tooling machines

LONDON

,

June 13, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- The global economic crisis in 2009

severely affected the European computerized numerical control (CNC) machine

tools market, with many end users radically reducing their spending. While

recovery in

Europe

was slower than in other regions, the end of 2010 boded

well for further market development.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com),

Strategic Analysis of the European Computerized Numerical Control

(CNC) Machine Tools Market

, finds that the market earned revenues of

euro

8.6 billion

in 2010 and estimates this to reach

euro 17.6 billion

in 2015. The

research covers: CNC metal cutting machine tools and CNC metal forming

machine tools.

CNC machines enable rapid manufacturing of different types of products.

These machines play a vital role in helping companies deliver products to the

market on time.

"While human beings are more flexible and trainable than machines, a CNC

machine can be totally reprogrammed within a few hours to produce a

completely different product," notes Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst

Katarzyna Owczarczyk. "This can be done very quickly, so it is possible to have

a different product within the shortest time possible and with the same

accuracy."

Moreover, once a programme is verified and executed for single production

run, it can be used repeatedly, whenever required. It is possible to refer back to

archived programmes or install new ones, when a different work piece is

needed.

CNC machine tools also enable faster change-over. They can be setup and

operated with great ease.

"This confers CNC machines with a significant advantage over other machines;

they can quickly shift to producing a completely different product without the

installation of many new parts or a major overhaul of key components,"

remarks Owczarczyk. "Products can be manufactured in a short time, obviating

the need to maintain a large inventory."

These features are in synch with current Just-In-Time requirements for product

manufacturing and ensure that CNC machines can keep pace with rapidly

changing customer demand.

While these are the positives, a key challenge for manufacturers has been the

emergence of a second-hand CNC machine tools market. As a result of the

continual replacement of existing equipment with new, improved products, old