How’s Your Machine’s Health?

How’s Your Machine’s Health?

With qualified workers in short supply these days, chances are good that you’ve been letting your Preventative Maintenance Plan slide, that is if you even have one. C&B has been in business since 1980 and specializes in new and re-engineered double-disc grinding machines.

We have many years of experience working with top automotive companies and suppliers with many different makes and models of grinding machines. Let C&B work with you to create a Preventative Maintenance Plan for your grinding machines that will minimize downtime and keep you producing quality parts. After you have a plan, we can perform the maintenance, or provide documentation for you to follow. PM YOUR GRINDER, because in today’s challenging business environment, you can’t afford to be down!

Machine Services Provided

    • Preventative Maintenance
    • Machine Inspection
    • Machine Set-Up and Operator Training
    • Machine Alignment – Spindles, Dresser, Guides, and Tooling

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Hiring Problems…Time to Automate!

Hiring Problems…Time to Automate!

With the current labor shortage and cost, it may be time to justify moving up from the single-sided labor-intensive Surface and Blanchard grinding and take that leap into Single and Double Disc Grinding with C&B Machinery.

Case Example:

A Full-time dedicated operator was needed to load/unload and grind Push Rod Seats on a Blanchard grinder to get 500 parts per hour.

Dedicated Operator Hand Loading Blanchard Grinder

Solution:

C&B built a custom Single Disc grinder complete with automatic load and unload which only required 20% of the operator’s time and increased their productivity to 3600 parts per hour.

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Specialized Rotary Carrier Tooling with Permanent Magnet Integrated
Ultimate Upgrade Package for Besly Grinders!

Ultimate Upgrade Package for Besly Grinders!

Spindle Upgrade and New Control System

Did you know that C&B Machinery has the ultimate retrofit packages for your Besly DH6 Double Disc and Besly V-Series Vertical Disc Grinding Machines that can be installed on your plant floor with minimal downtime?

With our C&B Besly Retrofit Package, your old grinder will have a majority of the technology found on our new DG-2H series grinders. Your machine would be approximately 85% remanufactured for less than half the cost of a new machine with as little as one week of downtime. If you have a Besly machine at your facility you are aware of their time-tested value making them well worth reinvesting in.


Quick Return on Investment (ROI):

  1. Utilize Existing Capital Equipment
    • Base Grinder
    • Tooling and Fixtures
  2. Increased Productivity:
    • Automatic Dress Cycle – Four (4) minute dressing, good part to good part is possible.
    • Extended Grinding Wheel Life – Dressing done at the proper intervals to maintain wheel flatness.
    • Consistent Part Quality -Proper wheels dressing, precision feed systems, and rigid fully remanufactured spindles.
    • Increased Up Time – Reduced setup time, new electrical control system,  simple touch screen control panel with fault messaging, and instructional prompts when necessary to guide operators.

Upgraded Spindle Head Assembly with Ballscrew In-Feed

Remanufactured Besly Double Disc Grinding Spindle with Ballscrew In-Feed Upgrade

Complete New Control System and Panel

Double Disc Grinding Machine Control Panel Upgrade

Mobile Handheld Operator Station (HMI)

Simple Interface with Touch Screen Controls

C & B Machinery Custom Double Disc Grinder Touch Screen Controls

Installed In-Plant with Minimal Downtime


The equivalent of an almost 85% completely remanufactured machine when complete!

The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

The Acquisition of C&B Machinery

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On August 17, 2020, Orbitform, along with its group of investors, acquired C&B Machinery. C&B Machinery will stay a separate entity with its own staff and facility with additional backing from the skilled manufacturing team at Orbitform. Orbitform looks forward to working with and supporting our highly skilled team.

C&B Machinery is an industry leader providing world-class precision disc grinding and metal removal equipment solutions. We are well known for our double disc grinding equipment, which is an efficient method of removing equal stock from opposing faces of a part. This process results in the highest quality level of flatness and parallelism on both opposing surfaces.

C&B Machinery has supported numerous industries, including automotive, aerospace, and hand tools. They offer new and re-engineered disc grinding and metal removal equipment. Their re-engineered machines include used machines retrofitted with the newest mechanical and control standards, rebuilt after a complete inspection to like-new condition, or some combination of both to provide the most cost-effective solution.

C&B Machinery’s new President Bill Tulpa adds, “We intend to carry on the heritage that C&B Machinery established over the last 40 years. I look forward to working with the existing, highly skilled C&B team to grow the business.”

Please visit the Orbitform website to gain a better understanding of their offerings and manufacturing capabilities. C&B Machinery is excited to have a growing team of manufacturing leaders to assist in propelling our business forward!

Cleary’s Vehicle to a Better Future 2019!

Cleary’s Vehicle to a Better Future 2019!

We are proud to support Cleary University and their Annual Signature Event! Please help us support our local university by attending this wonderful event and supporting future students in our community!

Join us for the Cleary University’s 4th Annual Vehicle to a Better Future Signature Event. This year will feature the same exciting theme and will test the culinary skills of local business leaders and C.E.O.s in a friendly competition to claim the coveted Cleary Culinary Cup.

Key leaders and supporters will be paired with executive chefs and Cleary University seniors in a culinary battle – all focused on raising support for Cleary student success initiatives.

Interested in sponsoring the event? Click here for our full Sponsor Menu!

Cleary Vehicle to a Better Future 2019 - 2018 Culinary Cup Winners
Chris Landells of 2FOG’s Pub & David Snodgrass of Lake Trust Credit Union
Winners of the 2018 Cleary Culinary Cup
Specialty Grinder for Large Non-Coplanar Connecting Rods

Specialty Grinder for Large Non-Coplanar Connecting Rods

C & B Machinery of Brighton, Michigan has received an order from a major North American manufacturer of large construction and mining equipment to supply a specialty grinder for grinding the parallel faces of very large connecting rods.  To meet the customer’s quality and volume requirement’s C & B will be building a virtually new grinder utilizing a Mattison 100C-5 base machine pulled from C & B’s warehouse of over 40 similar grinding machines.

Our remanufacturing process will bring this grinder to 2019 technology standards and designs. Applying servo-controlled ball screw feeds on all (5) five vertical grinding spindles, position tracking on the rotary table to aid the new robotic load automation.  A touch screen mobile pendant will give the operator a simple operation of the grinder with its new (5) axis Allen Bradly safety integrated controls system.    Post process gauging will feedback to the AB control system to maintain consistent stock removal and final size at each grinding spindle.

The tooling design will accommodate two different customer connecting rods without any changeover. Both connecting rods are over 21” (548mm) long and are non-coplanar meaning the crank thickness is different from the pin thickness as well the pin is non-symmetrical.  The grinder will also have the ability to exceed the customer’s volume requirements if needed.

 

About C & B Machinery

C & B Machinery is a builder of high precision grinding machines based in Brighton, Michigan. Grinding machines, including all tooling, fixtures, controls and lubrication system is designed, manufactured and installed at the Brighton, MI, facility and fully supported after the sale by C & B Machinery’s, qualified and trained, service and support staff.  C & B supplies machines for a global list of customers, with the majority of sales being in North America (NAFTA Region). We provide complete turnkey grinding cells for all U.S. automotive companies and their tier-one and two suppliers. Included in our customer base are also aerospace, bearing, heavy equipment, compressor, and oil & gas industries.