Every week we feature interesting information and trivia about some of the parts we manufacture here at Lampin. The world is full of fascinating parts and components that may seem small, but all play a big part in our daily lives!
CNC Machinist, Chucking Lathes
We seek an experienced CNC Machinist to work in our CNC Chucking Lathe area. The ideal candidate will have a vocational education with a minimum of 5 years of job shop experience including set-ups, G-code and CAM programming, and production chucking experience. The...
CNC Machinist, Swiss Lathes
We seek an experienced CNC Machinist to work in our CNC Swiss Lathe area. The ideal candidate will have a vocational education with a minimum of 5 years of job shop experience including set-ups, G-code and CAM programming, and production Swiss lathe machining...
5 Considerations When Buying Spiral Bevel Gear Drives
Spiral bevel gear drives play a critical role where motive force within a machine must be transferred “around a corner.” Spiral bevel gearboxes are often specified in challenging locations such as washdown processing areas, or, conversely, where the end-use...
Lampin Prototype Reduces Costs by 50%
Lampin has a long-term relationship with Coburn Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of computer integrated optical equipment. While designing the company’s new gemini™ lens processing system, Coburn engineers worked closely with Lampin engineers on the heart of the...
Meeting Market Demand in Direct Imaging Industry
Presstek Corporation, a leading supplier of direct imaging equipment, had a problem: Their pioneering technology was rapidly being adopted and their biggest customer was predicting a significant increase in sales. Lampin had always supplied the lens holder components,...
Fast Response to Customer Crisis in Medical Industry
On a Sunday evening, a fire broke out at Smith & Nephew’s (S&N) Andover, Mass. facility. Major damage was averted when the sprinkler system extinguished the fire. Unfortunately, the two machines that were responsible for producing the company’s popular line...
Advancing Surgical Innovation
Visualization Technology, Inc. (VTI) contacted Lampin when they needed help designing their revolutionary line of fluoroscopy-based surgical equipment. With more than twenty-five years of experience as a medical supplier, Lampin was able to help design and manufacture...
Sourcing Saves the Day
For more than 20 years, Titanium Ball Valve (TBV) has relied on Lampin for critical components. TBV supplies specialty valves with zero tolerance for external leakage. On a Tuesday afternoon, TBV realized it would be unable to meet a customer order because of a...
Response Keeps Production Online
MITRPAK received an urgent call at 1:00 p.m. from John Lebeau at Eastern Industrial Automation, a MITRPAK distributor. One of their customers’ production lines was down and they needed a replacement right angle gear drive immediately. The customer, a major supplier of...
Customer Dilemma Solved by MITRPAK Double Seal
A major manufacturer of chicken processing equipment had a competitive gearbox failing every two to three weeks. Standard, dimensionally-equivalent, off-the-shelf MITRPAK drives were bolted directly into place and lasted only three months. MITRPAK engineers weren't...
