What used to be the exception has become increasingly the norm over the last five or six years in the measurement of manufactured parts. The trend is clearly towards 100% control. The company Tool-Tec from Pischelsdorf is well prepared for these“high customer demands”. The company recently invested in another gantry-type coordinate measuring machine. The WENZEL LH 2015 was ordered from GGW Gruber, Tool-Tec’s trusted partner for high-precision,quality-assurance testing.

Tool-Tec was actually founded in 1993 as a toolmaker, but the market gave the Styrians a different direction. Meanwhile the Pischelsdorfer are regarded as the go-to people when large parts have to be turned, milled and/or welded.“We offer our customers tailor-made complete solutions from a single source, whereby a few years ago we specialized in the machining of large parts,” reveals Harald Wolf,founder and managing director of Tool-Tec Werkzeugbau GmbH. Among the Steirer’s regular customers are many well-known mechanical engineers and industrial companies.Typical products ordered from Harald Wolf and his team of 85 employees are, for example, machine base frames including painting. An average annual quantity of 400 means that two such machine components are produced almost daily. 

“We can weld, process and measure parts with a unit weight of up to 15 tons”, emphasizes the Tool-Tec boss. “When welding, we meet the requirements of DIN EN 15085 CL1/CL4-2, DIN EN ISO 3834-2 and EN 1090,”he adds. The approval for the welding of rail vehicles and rail vehicle parts is therefore also given by the Pischelsdorfers.

 

Quality assurance is the trump card

 

The company Tool-Tec’s machinery is impressive. A total of 20 CNC milling machining centers, three lathes, two grinding machines, five welding machines, one painting booth and two measuring machines distributed over two locations are available for mainly series production. Usually the ordered lot sizes range between 5 and 50 pieces. “We strive for lasting customer relationships and impeccable references. To this end, we pursue a zero-defect policy with quality assurance in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001,” explains Harald Wolf. The demands of our customers are constantly increasing. According to the Tool-Tec managing director, this fact can be seen, among other things, in the fact that just-in-time delivery with test reports is becoming increasingly necessary.“What used to be the exception is now explicitly included in almost every order: most customers want to have their documents documented in black and white and proof that the quality of the manufactured parts fits 100%,”confirms Harald Wolf. That was one of the reasons why he recently invested in another WENZEL LH Gantry. The LH 1210, which has been available for a long time, has already been performing reliable “measuring services” at the Pischelsdorf company for several years. “This coordinate measuring machine has already pointed out errors to us several times. It serves not only as a quality assurance tool but also as a quality-enhancing instrument, because we can now optimize much more specifically,” says one who prefers to act proactively. After all, as a future-oriented company interested in long-term success, it has to stay on the ball permanently in order to succeed in the face of increasingly global competition.