Giovanni and Maurizio, technicians at Mevi Italia and Alessandro Manzoni during test of their MB-5. Davide Mugetti and Alessandro Manzoni in the office of Huaian, China. We met Claudio Mugetti, President of Mevi Italia S.r.l., one of the best Italian screw manufacturers. Based in Cassolnovo (Pavia), with more than 50 employees Mevi Italia for more than 25 years has been supplying high quality fasteners to the big multinational companies in the field of electronic, electrical engineer, white goods and industrial components. “Our customers are very demanding, we supply their production lines Just in Time and Kanban: it’s enough one small bad screw to stop a very expensive automated assembling line. For this reason our manufacturing plants are equipped only with advanced technology machines able to guarantee unfailing and continuous quality of final product while keeping high productivity and reducing down time. The Part Former we bought from Manzoni Machinery is the perfect answer to our need: it guarantees a very high heading precision even at high speed, it’s very user friendly and allows quick job changes. It is provided with several innovative features, specifically developed to make the operator‘s job easier. Thanks to the frame made of steel it’s very sturdy while being really compact, therefore it doesn’t take up a big space in the shop floor. Finally, the price is really unbelievable: with the same investment needed to buy a header of the same quality in Italy or USA we can get into production 3 Manzoni machines, achieving a 200% productivity increase. We are so satisfied of our MB-5 that we have already ordered another one!”. Davide Mugetti, process and planning manager at Mevi Italia says: “production quality is the key factor at the base of our company and the electronic servo mechanisms installed on the Manzoni Machinery header are a very helpful means to achieve the zero ppm goal. The MB-5 indeed is conceived in a particular way where only parts checked by the process control can be dropped into the good parts bin, avoiding in this way any possible contamination of the production. In case transfer looses a blank or in case of minor anomalies, parts are automatically rejected and forwarded into the scraps container, without stopping the machine. Added to the batch breaking, this system is a formidable quality control instrument and a big advantage for the operator, who, while setting the machine, can easily drop all blanks from transfer simply touching an icon on the screen. In case of stainless steel production with controlled temperature induction coil pre-heating system, thanks to a special camera the machine automatically discards all blanks out of the temperature range, saving in this way the tooling. Avoiding continuous machine stops drastically increase the productivity”. The voice of the customer: MEVI ITALIA S.r.l. “The Manzoni Machinery MB is a very high precision header with extraordinary performances and an unbelievable quality-price ratio . With have just ordered another one!”. Issue 02-2008