Richmond Godfrey, Manufacturing
Engineer, and Warner Whitehorn, Engineer, Master-Bilt, New Albany, MS

Master-Bilt manufactures refrigerated merchandisers, cabinets and walk in coolers and freezers. All walk in coolers and freezers are custom built, ranging in size from 8’x 8’ to a warehouse 200 feet long by 20 feet high.

“It’s a lot faster to run it through the UniPunch tooling than it is to put it on the turret.”

“ We use both dedicated setups and knock downs. We manufacture about 400 different cooling cabinets. Because of that, if we have a part that is going to be high volume, we won’t knock down a setup. On the lower volume parts we break the setup down and reuse the tooling on other jobs.

“ We have five Amada turrets, shears, coil lines, press brakes, welding, hard dies for higher volume forming jobs. We use UniPunch tooling for parts that we have determined that it would be more economical to produce on unitized tooling than to put them on the turret press because our turrets are way behind most of the time.

“If we have a sheet of metal that only gets four square notches in it, it’s a lot faster to run it through the UniPunch tooling than it is to put it on the turret where you have to reposition the material. With UniPunch you just hit it once, turn the material and hit it again and you’re done.”

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