MPI Expands American Manufacturing Operations
MPI Inc., the worldwide leader in wax-room equipment, has expanded its base of operations here in the United States. MPI has purchased the Poughkeepsie-based building they currently occupy and have added 14,000 square feet to their equipment-manufacturing operations. “This purchase and expansion demonstrates our substantial commitment to maintaining our base of operations here in the United States for the foreseeable future,” stated Bruce Phipps, President of MPI.
The expanded space has allowed MPI to create a fully functioning laboratory, showroom and production facility to demonstrate their state-of-the-art, wax-room equipment. The expansion has also provided for additional meeting space to accommodate ongoing training classes and seminars for their global customer base.
Pattern and Assembly Services Offered
More importantly, the additional space will accommodate MPI’s future service plans as they expand their offerings to include pattern production and assembly. Pattern production is mutually beneficial because it gives the customer a chance to experience MPI equipment and allows MPI to clearly see opportunities for enhanced equipment design. When MPI customers invest in automation, it allows them to reap the benefits of the process without the initial commitment to purchase.
The goal at MPI has always been to improve the casting process. As a result, MPI developed the Automated Pattern Assembly System (APAS), the world’s first fully automated, high-accuracy pattern assembly system.
Utilizing this technology, MPI has created a fully functioning wax-injection facility at their headquarters. MPI is now able to cost-effectively produce and assemble patterns which can be shipped directly to their customers. By offering pattern production and assembly services, MPI provides clients the opportunity to experience firsthand, the higher casting yields of APAS.
APAS is ideally suited for low or high-volume, close-tolerance pattern assembly and is considered the most innovative product available to the investment casting industry today. Automated injection cells are also available to perform secondary operations that range from pattern injection to completed pattern assembly. Either way, automation has proven time and again that a robotics-based machine can outperform manually operated machines in accuracy, repeatability and efficiency.
MPI works with their customer to produce assemblies which, when automated, produce extraordinary bottom-line results because it reduces labor costs and increases casting yields.
“Clients will see just how effective MPI’s injection and assembly cell can be in creating repeatable wax patterns by removing any human variation. We believe that once clients experience the dramatic increase in quality, quantity and throughput, they will want a cell for their own use,” said Bruce Phipps, President of MPI.
Customers will have the option to continue to have MPI produce and assemble their patterns or to purchase the system and have the process duplicated at their own facility. With APAS, cycle times are 2-5 times faster than with manual assembly, high-quality welds are created 100% of the time and overall casting yields increase by 10-30%.
MPI’s innovative technology produces unrivaled results in all their machines, from the Model 56 ceramic injector to APAS 20-10 mentioned previously.
About MPI:
MPI has been the worldwide leader in wax-room equipment for over 38 years, having produced over 1600 wax-injection machines with 98.5% still in active service. As the acknowledged leader in wax-room innovations, MPI has developed and introduced more systems and products than all their competition combined. To learn more, contact MPI directly.