FLEXIBILITY is the keynote of the design of this AUTOMATIC PROGRAMME PLATING MACHINE

The fundamental purpose of any automatic machine is to reduce or even eliminate completely the need for manual labour and, most important, to give the highest possible output. Achievement of the latter requirement generally means that the machine is designed to handle one type of component only, and any variation in component design necessitates either another machine or modification of the original machine. In other words, automatic machines are, in general, not flexible or adaptable. The plating industry provides an exception to this generalisation because the use of automatic machines capable of a variety of operations is now established practice. In this article is described an automatic programme plating machine designed specially to give maximum flexibility. It is new to this country, and the first machine has now been built under licence.