Fires in CNC machines can cause severe damage in a short period of time and potentially spread throughout the manufacturing facility causing expensive downtime, costly repairs, human injury and damage to plant and equipment. The primary cause of such fires is either from oil-based fluids such as lubricants and coolants igniting or if cutting tools fail.
Firetrace’s automatic fire suppression system has been fitted to thousands of machines over the past 25 years. The system is ideal for protecting all types of automated machines. The linear detection tubing that is installed throughout the risk area can quickly and accurately detect a fire often before the operator does.
Over the years, Firetrace’s system has successfully suppressed many fires that could have proved costly. One notable success story involved a Suffolk-based manufacturing company.
After experiencing a fire in one of its CNC machines which resulted in the fire service attending and the factory shutting, the company decided to fit Firetrace to its machinery. When a couple of years later a second machine caught fire during operation the automated fire suppression system immediately activated, and the fire was extinguished without the need to call the emergency services.
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