DMG to construct a new plant at its Nara Campus dedicated to turnkey solutions
DMG MORI SEIKI CO LTD has recently announced that it will be constructing a new plant dedicated to turnkey solutions at its Nara Campus in Yamato-Koriyama City, Nara. In preparation for the construction of this new plant, the company have purchased land from Nara Hino Motors, Ltd, with the aim of commencing construction of the plant in May 2015, and completing its construction in November 2015.
The Nara Campus currently consists of the No. 1 and No. 2 Plants, and this new plant will be utilized as the third plant for the Campus.
These days, there is a rising demand for so called ‘turnkey’ solutions where multiple machines are integrated into a complete system that enables immediate start of mass production after delivery, in line with the trend towards globalization of the company’s automotive customers, and the expansion of the automobile industry, centered on emerging countries.
The new plant will be a dedicated turnkey one that can accommodate four 80-m long production system lines, where machine tools intended for the production lines of completed vehicles or automobile parts will be assembled. The assembly and production of the i50 high-speed horizontal machining centers, MAX 3000 high-productivity vertical machining centers, multi-axis turning centers, and other products for mass production parts machining that are currently taking place in the assembly plant at the Nara Campus will be relocated to the new plant.
In addition, DMG is taking over the lathe division from Amada Machine Tools Co Ltd in April 2015. The new turnkey plant will make it possible to secure a production site for them in the Nara Campus No. 1 Construction of this new plant will allow the company to respond even more rapidly to the demand for turnkey solutions from customers around the world, and to offer optimum solutions from the vicinity of the customer.
