en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, Unisig, a manufacturer of deep hole drilling systems, expanded its technology center in Wisconsin, USA, adding renovated space and over $1 million in research and development equipment to strengthen its role in precision deep hole drilling process development and machine tool innovation.
The technology center is tasked with developing gun drilling and BTA drilling processes for customers, testing new ideas to improve machine tool performance and ease of use. Such projects are typically completed before machine tool purchase or during manufacturing, helping to validate applications, confirm process capabilities, and shorten installation time.
Operated by Unisig engineers, the center follows a rigorous process including process planning, time studies, tool selection, and complete fixturing modeling, ensuring tests generate measurable insights and allow direct evaluation of results against engineering expectations.
Unisig CEO Anthony Fettig stated that the technology center enables the company to test and validate under real-world conditions, resulting in better machine tool designs, enhanced performance, and more practical solutions for customers.
Both mechanical and electrical engineers play roles within the center. Mechanical engineers use the facility to optimize drilling processes, validate tooling strategies, and gain a deeper understanding of machine tool performance across different materials and applications; electrical engineers test sensor technologies, optimize user interface functions, and develop machine control software on actual equipment rather than relying on simulation environments.
The ability to work on running machines introduces real variables early in the development cycle, allowing software to be validated before machine tool manufacturing is complete, ensuring new technologies are fully integrated with Unisig control systems, and helping identify usability improvements through direct operator interaction.
The center also supports automation development, where robots and machine tool systems are integrated and validated together, enabling the company to optimize automation strategies, improve changeovers, flexibility, and overall system performance before deployment.
In addition to development activities, the facility serves as a training resource for machine tool builders and service technicians, and provides customers with access to process demonstrations, testing, and application validation.
Unisig machine tools are available in the UK through its European sales and support organization, Unisig GMBH, based in Germany.
