Services include
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Custom machining of steel, stainless steel & other materials including
nylon and plastic parts -
Production and support tooling
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Design, prototype, test and assembly
Examples of work
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Plastic ware parts for vial guides
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End of conveyor turn guides
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Inspection stations
CAD Design
Our design & engineering department offers support to our customers in the areas
of design, material selection, production, assembly, on-site installation.
We also offer our standard product range of stainless steel materials,
handling, and processing equipment. Our highly experienced engineering
staff provides tool design and tooling support for today’s busy
manufacturing engineering.
Projects range from simple holding, storage, or masking fixtures to complex
pick and place units that need a high level of CAD drawing and
engineering specification. These are supplied with full engineering
certification and materials trace ability along with a list of spare parts and
CE Marking.
Some of our projects include
- Equipment for automatic handling and insertion of orthopedic
components
in subassemblies
- Special washing machines presenting components to the nozzle area
- Sorting machines and vibration machines for the grading of fine products
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Machines designed incorporating materials selected for corrosive suitations
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Materials handling solutions in the Biomedical and Food & Drinks industries
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Conveyor systems
We have also designed
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Support & production tooling
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Clamping fixtures
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Assembly jigs
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Customised workstations
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Test fixtures, mechanical push/pull, destructive, non destructive,
electronic test, vibration testing, noise levels, torque, liquid flow -
Specialised hand tools
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Hand insertion assembly/disassembly tools
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Material selection
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Technical Sales Engineers are available to visit our clients and work in consultative mode with your engineers, reporting back with 3D drawings and proposals for further discussion with the your implementation team, resulting in proto types and eventually proven products.
Design & Engineering Services's Our Team has created engineering solutions to manufacturing problems in production equipment, automation of complex processes, materials handling, critical product storage and resolved difficult health & safety issues with innovative design.
Precision Machining of mechanical components to supply chain demand
Ship from stock of these components using "pull" purchasing systems,
Fabricated Products Standard and bespoke stainless steel products
Assembly & Test of sub assemblies including these machined mechanical components together with electronic, cable, and other supply chain components.
On site Engineering Services's qualified staff have installed and modified production equipment in clean rooms on projects that saved potential losses of millions of Euro per year in process down time.
- Documented Safety Management Systems
- Design and delivery of safety training programmes
- Compliance management and tracking
- General and specific risk assessments
- Certificate of compliance with current European safety directives such as EN ISO 12100-1: 2003
Materials Handling Products. We also offer our standard product range of Stainless steel materials handling, process equipment and safety products.
Clean Room products
Accutool are agents to several manufacturers and we offer a range of standard stainless steel products for the clean room environment
Ultra sonic cleaning equipment and fluids
For metal and ceramic medical implants, surgical instruments, endoscopes and accessories
- Cleaning fluids for Splash wash and for ultrasonic washing machines
CUSTOM BUILT CLEAN LINE & PRODUCT STORAGE BASKETS
Accutool understand the demands of production environments, so we design our custom stainless steel wire baskets and racks with your product quality in mind. Special inserts to allow your parts to hover in mid air while being cleaned or with specially designed plastic holding inserts to protect surface finish or dimensional tolerances. We've made custom baskets and racks in stainless steels, Plastics such as UHMWPE, Acetal and Cpvc, and exotic alloys, with plated or electro polished surfaces Our Standard Round or Rectangular wire mesh baskets are perfect for dipping, cleaning, and sorting parts. We offer unlimited sizes up to 36", several mesh sizes, and several handle styles stainless steel or plastic to match your needs.
CAD Design:
Our Design & Engineering Dept offers support to our customers in the areas of Design, Material selection, Production methods, specialist tooling & Assembly methods.
Projects range from simple holding, storage or masking fixtures to complex pick and place units that need a high level of CAD drawing and engineering specification. There are supplied with full engineering certification and materials trace ability. And a list of spare parts. CE Marking is also supplied.
Some of our projects include:
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Equipment for automatic handling and insertion of orthopedic components in sub assemblies
-
Special washing machines presenting components to the nozzle area
-
Sorting machines, vibration machines for the grading of fine product
-
Machines designed incorporating materials selected for corrosive suitations
-
Materials handling solutions in the Biomedical and Food & Drinks industries
-
conveyor systems.
We have also designed:
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Clamping fixtures
-
Assembly jigs
-
Customised workstations
-
Test fixtures, mechanical push / pull, destructive, non destructive, electronic test, vibration testing, noise levels, torque, liquid flow
-
Specialised hand tools
-
Hand insertion assembly/ disassembly tools
Material selection:
We have chosen materials for projects such as Electro Static Discharge (ESD), high impact plastics such as PEEK, tough durable steels, specific stainless steels with higher than normal levels of constituent chemical properties, Plastic's required to operate at temperatures above 400 degrees Celsius, plastics with resistance to high acidity or high exposure to chemicals, Ceramics, Sintered and cast materials for various strength and mechanical properties. Aluminium Bronze for hardness and durability in bushings and gear chains. Aluminium grades such as HE30 for good anodizing properties, tooling plate 6160 for flatness and stability. Steels in ranges AISI 1020 to carbon steels in the AISI range 4140
Stainless steel types 304 , 316, 316L.
Plastics: Acetal, Nylon Cpcv, Textron, Peek. Kentron , UHMWPE
Accutool Ltd. work with a wide range of materials as detailed below. Materials are sourced with full traceability back to source and all stock is catalogued on our in house production management system.
Aluminium
We work with the following standard alloys 1050, 2014, 5083, 6082, 6061 and 7075, together with fully released L111, L113 and L115 material, rolled plate and extruded profiles. Our experience with these materials will enable us to work with your own designated material if not shown above.
Stainless Steel
Stainless steel is stored separate to other steels and care is taken where required to the type of tooling and finishing used in order to minimise surface contaminants. Typical grades of stainless steel handled include 304, 316, 303, and 309 as well as 416 and 500 series materials
Aluminium Bronze
We use aluminium bronze for many applications including bearing brushes, aircraft landing gear components and marine applications, both billet and cast formed and have experience with the production of aluminium bronze components for frictional applications.
Titanium
We work mainly with Ti-6Al-4V (grade 5) although have experience with Ti-6Al-4V ELI (grade 23). Because of titanium's tendency to gall it is necessary to maintain sharp tools which means regular tool changes and observation. Another common feature of titanium is its elasticity which causes chatter and requires firm holding to mitigate. For particular operations such as drilling, and tapping we use carbide tooling in place of steel tooling which is prone to wear and breakage and pay particular attention to low cutting speeds, fluids and constant high feed rates.
Copper
Free machining copper (C109 & C111) like many coppers tend to demonstrate sticky machining qualities and so require appropriate cutting fluids and low cutting speeds. Additional problems associated with copper include chip removal from drilled holes, and staining resulting from inappropriate use of cooling fluids. Copper is used widely in the electrical and electronics industries as well as the water and marine industries.
Brass
Most of our brass machining is CZ121 which allows for high speed machining. Typical applications include hose couplings and fluid handling equipment. Other brass alloys such as CZ124 can be used where higher ductility is required for secondary cold forming processes.
Iconel
Iconel is a difficult metal to work with due to the way it work-hardens after a single pass, as such aggressive but slow cuts with a hard tool are required. Most of our experience is with Iconel 718 which is typically used for high temperature applications such as turbines, combuste rs, pressure vessels and heat exchange equipment.
PEEK
Polyetheretherketone (Peek) is a plastic typically used for aerospace, semiconductor and high-technology applications such as seals, insulators and wear strips. Although easily machined, as with many plastics thermal expansion is many times higher than metal and so localised heating is avoided.
PTFE
PTFE is a difficult material to work with and has a number of variants. Combining low tensile strength, resilience and high thermal expansion, PTFE can prove elastic under machining, more so with turning and can even alter in its dimensions after machining is complete. PTFE is commonly used as an insulator in electrical applications, food and pharmaceutical equipment and laboratory apparatus. PTFE has applications where exposure to aggressive compounds occurs such as acid and caustics, for its electrical resistance, for high temperature environments and because it is chemically inert, for food, medical and pharmaceutical applications.
Acrylic
We have experience with cell cast, continuous cast and extruded acrylic and utilise differing techniques for each material including varying the type of cutting tool used in order to prevent melting and discolouration. Acrylic has wide applications across all industries and is primarily used for its weatherability, strength and optional transparency.
Phenolic Resins
Phenolic resins, high-pressure thermosetting industrial laminated plastics made of composite layers of paper or glass cloth impregnated with a synthetic resin comes in a wide range of forms. Machining is general easy but each form will require close attention to suppliers specification sheets.
Delrin
Delrin, which is a brand name for acetal resin engineering plastic is a hard wearing self lubricating material which is often used as a metal substitute. Most of our experience is with Delrin 150 SA and Delrin 550 SA. Typical applications include medical components, washers, nozzles and for semiconductor components.
Ertalyte
We have experience with the machining of both Ertalyte and Ertalyte TX, which has high wear resistance suited for the manufacture of mechanical precision part that have to sustain high loads. Typical applications include mating surfaces in valves and mechanical housings and food equipment.
Accutool is based in Plato Business Park Dublin 15 Ireland, and has a sales 
network covering the whole of Ireland, midlands of England, Europe and the USA.
Our mission is to add value to our customers' products and processes and to work
within the law of the land in terms of labour conditions, health & safety requirements
and corporate affairs. Established in 1985 the company has focused on providing
engineering products and services to manufacturing companies. Since 1994 we have
used the ISO 9000 quality management system to control our processes and we are
currently certified to ISO 9001:2008. Third parties affiliated to the FDA and the FAA
also audit us.
Our product advantage is that we offer combined experience in 3D design,
assembly & test, tool making, machining, fabricating, metal finishing
and sourcing of chain supply parts for many sectors of industry.
Accutool has been using world class manufacturing techniques for over 10 years
and has made continual investments in the latest capital equipment, IT infrastructure,
training and facilities in order to develop our business. We have manufactured millions
of precision-engineered products which are backed by devoted employees
with a singular commitment bringing performance advantage to every technology,
product and service we provide.
