Oliphant Tool Company

Welcome to Oliphant Tool Company

Manufacturer of carbide pins & punches for cold forming

Supplying the world leaders in fastener technology for over 25 years

Aerospace - Automotive - Commercial - Electronics - Medical

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Manufacturing Innovation

Engineering: In-house mechanical, electrical and software engineering

Partial Equipment List:
-    40+ Oliphant O-Code 2-Axis CNC centerless grinders
-    20 Oliphant O-Code 4-Axis CNC grinders
-    4 Oliphant O-Code 3 and 4-Axis CNC Hardinge lathes and Crystal Lake grinders
-    12 optical comparators
-    Multiple software development workstations
-    2 Wire EDMs

Proprietary Task Oriented CNC Machine Tools

During the mid-1980’s, the ever increasing demands for our tooling compelled us to find new ways of increasing production while maintaining our excellent quality and value. Using our skills in electronics and programming, we started with the construction of a single in-house built 2-axis CNC machine tool and that one machine quickly became many. We currently operate more than 60 multi-axis CNC carbide grinders with more coming on-line every quarter.

Doing it our way

By designing the hardware and coding the software ourselves, we were able to change a lot of the things we didn’t like about generic and extremely overpriced CNC machine tools.

Our machines understand English. At the heart of our CNC machine tools is our proprietary CNC programming interpreter that speaks directly to our hardware. It utilizes simple English language commands; more capable than G-Code without having to know complicated G-Code. The system is so intuitive yet powerful that a person with no prior experience in CNC programming can learn how to manufacture the most complex tooling in a matter of a day or two, rather than weeks or even months as is the case with traditional G-code training.

Superior reliability. Traditional CNC machine tools are overly complicated. They typically utilize highly proprietary hardware and software running on Microsoft Windows. When the software or hardware develops a small problem it can render the machine inoperable until a field tech can repair it at an exorbitant cost. And with the CNC software being proprietary, operators are not in a position to customize it or add features to meet their unique needs. Our system is radically different. Simple and robust solid state micro-controllers accept the CNC machine code generated by our proprietary software directly into its built in flash memory. Only an inexpensive text based terminal is needed run or make adjustments.

We support what we build. Since we design and build our own machine tools, we are not at the mercy of third parties to maintain our equipment. In the unlikely event that a machine should develop a mechanical, electronic or software issue, large or small, it is easily and quickly resolved, typically within half an hour instead of days, weeks or even months as is the case with traditional pre-packaged CNC machine tools. And those repairs are done at a tiny fraction of the cost. Additionally if a operator requests a new software feature for a tool he or she is making, our software engineers can quickly add it. OT-CNC technical support is down the hall not in another state or country.

Superior performance. We don’t have to compromise performance by supporting unnecessary features or suffering from software limitations. The task-oriented nature of these machines provide superior accuracy, reliability and repeatability. These machines are the best in the world for doing what they do.

Lower cost. The economic advantage of ease of use, self-support, higher performance and reliability all at a 80-90% lower per unit deployment cost allows us to deploy and support dozens of these capable purpose-built machines with single operator running up to 20 Oliphant OT-CNC machines simultaneously.

Oliphant Tool Company has always been and continues to be the force of innovation in pin & punch manufacturing.

Software Engineering

From Z to Xeon, 30 years of continuous software development

From the Zilog Z80 to the Intel Core i7, for more than 30 years we have been writing computer operating systems and software applications along with engineering CNC hardware and custom machine tool attachments.

The power and flexibility that comes from creating our own software is enormous. Having custom software means no compromises for ourselves or our customers. Computational aids give inspectors more points of inspection insuring that complicated forms are more accurate. Our proprietary operating system OTOS3 running our OT-CNC O-Code interpreter tools give programmers a vast arsenal of easy to use shortcuts for creating complex tooling and if a software aid is not available, one is written in-house in just a few hours. Touch-screen operated multi-platform data processing and order handling tools provide up to the second information about supplier performance, manufacturing efficiency and the after-order experience. Server management tools insure that historical data is well preserved, organized and protected from loss or prying eyes.

Our customers will never see this software in action but the benefits show in our ultra high performance tooling that is exceptionally accurate and behaves consistently well from tool to tool all at an excellent price.

What started as a hobby at the dawn of the microcomputer revolution has become an integral part of our business.

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Oliphant Tool Company
15652 Chemical Lane
Huntington Beach, California
Phone: +01 (714) 903-6336 Fax +01 (714) 903-6321
Customer Service: custservice@oliphanttool.com
Technical Support: techsupp@oliphanttool.com

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