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Hebron, KY – Setco Sales Company (“Setco), a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc. (“Holden”), an employee-owned company, is proud and excited to announce the asset acquisition of GTI Spindle Technology, Inc. (“GTI”). Setco and GTI are the two largest U.S. spindle repair providers serving all OEM brands globally. Setco has nine (9) global locations, specializing …

Typically made of high-strength steel, machine tool spindles are perceived to be solid, sturdy pieces of machinery. This is somewhat true, but spindle bearings and other mechanical components are high precision with tight tolerances as well as electrical components, all of which do not fare well under shock loads. So extra care must be taken …

Are you heading to PMTS 2023? We’ll be there and would love to see you. Here are a few great reasons to stop by our booth (#6055): See live demonstrations of GTI’s iPad powerful predictive maintenance platform – wireless vibration, wireless balancing, wireless condition monitoring Meet with GTI’s industry-leading experts to discuss spindle rebuilding, testing and QC …

GTI is proud to be exhibiting at the Hardinge Open House on April 11th and 12th, 2023, in Elmira, NY, and we’d love to see you there. Hardinge will have machines and workholding products on display. Knowledgeable sales, applications, and engineering support staff will be on hand to answer your questions. You’ll also enjoy educational …

Welcome to the second installment of a 2 part series that focuses on minimizing downtime by strategically managing spindle service and repair. The Hotel Program Previously, we mentioned that storage considerations can prevent certain manufacturing locations from using the Spare Spindle Program. For them, the Hotel Program, sometimes called the Stocking Program, may be ideal. …

Managing spindle service and repair — both in regards to scheduled or expected maintenance, and in surprise, unexpected maintenance — can be a surprisingly complex operation. Or a surprisingly simple one, depending on various factors and preferences. In an ideal situation, a good spindle service plan involves preventative maintenance, careful scheduling, backup spindles, storage considerations …

One topic we hear more and more about these days is reliability. Essentially, this refers to initiatives designed to keep manufacturing facilities up and running efficiently and, well, reliably. It consists of several components such as predictive maintenance, planning, scheduling, data collection and analysis, and much more. Today, we’ll review a critical component to the …

The push and pull between production teams and maintenance teams is a familiar story on shop floors across all sectors. Maintenance wants to keep machines running well, maximizing efficiency and lifespan; production wants a steady stream of finished parts going out the door. We all know who gets their way most often. Production, who tend …

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No matter how built-out your in-house repair department is — how well-equipped or how well-staffed — there will be times when you need to outsource certain services, and source replacement parts. That’s a simple fact. Even union facilities, which mandate in-house repairs, need to outsource certain things they can’t do themselves, due to lack of …