Waterbury Swiss Automatics

John M. Dean Co., established in 1898, specializes in providing custom wire products, including both pointed and non-pointed wire, to a diverse range of industries. The company is committed to utilizing high-quality materials such as carbon steel, stainless steel, monel, nickel-silver, and titanium to meet the varied needs of its clients. As a comprehensive service provider, John M. Dean Co. offers an extensive array of secondary operations, including heat treating, metal finishing, plating, polishing, and assembly. This makes them a reliable one-stop source for superior custom pins and wire products, catering to specialized requirements such as antique phonograph needle styles and blow gun darts. Generated from the website

Bartley Manufacturing Co Inc, located in Waterbury, CT, has been providing precision screw machine products for over 45 years. The company prides itself on delivering efficiently designed machined products, utilizing advanced CNC and Davenport machines to complete many secondary operations. As an ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturer, Bartley specializes in machining a variety of materials including brass, aluminum, steel, stainless steel, and copper. The company serves diverse industries such as automotive, medical, HVAC, electrical, consumer products, aerospace, and recreational sectors, with additional services like heat treating and plating offered through trusted partners. Generated from the website

Ville Swiss, established in 1985, is a manufacturer of proprietary machined metal products for corporations.We utilize a block of "Sliding Headstock" machinery that is comprised of Citizen and Tsugami CNC's, Tornos Swiss cam machines and Escomatic coil fed cam machines. The key to understanding our identity lies in the term "Sliding Headstock." This type of automatic equipment is ideal for holding tight tolerances on our products due to the tooling being mounted close to a very accurately bored, adjustable bushing. The machinery then uses a headstock to "Slide" the material through the bushing into the tooling. Because the bushing keeps the material very rigid at the point of machining, the machinery is capable of holding tolerances as close as +/-.0002 on diameters, under ideal conditions. The concept makes the sliding headstock machinery ideal for the manufacture of long slender parts, typically where the length of the part exceeds three times it's diameter.There are other advantages to the sliding headstock machinery. On the cam type machinery we are able to stop the spindles and on the CNC type machinery, we enjoy complete, 360 degree, control of the spindle rotation. On the cam type machines we are able to stop the spindle to machine operations such as cross-drilled holes, mills and slots, and broached forms. On the CNC controlled machines, we are usually limited only by imagination as to what we can accomplish in part configuration.There are weaknesses in the sliding headstock machines that make them non-competitive in certain part configurations. The bushings tend to generate friction under heavy load, thereby limiting the speed at which the tooling can remove material from the barstock. The machines also do not typically possess the horsepower that conventional type machinery may have. Therefore, if you can sacrifice some dimensional accuracy and repeatability for high production rates, the sliding headstock machines may not be able to compete with certain types of conventional machinery as related to pricing, but if you want close tolerance, repetitive dimensioning and the elimination of "Secondary operations" sliding headstock machines are the perfect candidates.