GM
The first Automotive End User that applied Tricept in its production was GM for assembly and they where also the first End User that used parts being machined by a Tricept. Hydro was the first supplier to GM to purchase Tricept 600 for their production of aluminium frames and also the first customer to implement the 800 in full production. One of the most famous cars, the new Corvette, is partly produced using the Tricept, by Hydro, Dana and GM, that currently utilize five (5) of the biggest Tricept 845 with turn tables to produce the Wind Shield Frame, Main Body Frame and the Side Rails.
 
 
BMW
The biggest prestige order, so far, was received from BMW for the production of the new 5 and 6 series cars. BMW made a deep and careful analyze of the Tricept and came to the conclusion that for the manufacturing of the front and rear axle the Tricept was outstanding in all the areas that were set out as criteria. Today there are ten (10) Tricept 800 with MES in full production machining the front and rear axles completely from raw material to fully finished parts ready to assemble. According to BMW all expectations have been fulfilled and also in many cases exceeded. The system was completely integrated by PCI.
 
 
PSA
Another very successful order and delivery have been fulfilled to the PSA group through PCI as an Integrator. This system contains thirteen (13) Tricept 800 with turn tables and produces high volumes of the front and rear axle to the new Peugeot 307. The system has also here fulfilled, and in many cases exceeded, the expectations of the PSA group and the quality as well as the uptime produced by this line is very high. For this system PCI purchased only the mechanical module and then build their own Tricept 845 called Tripteor 8 that is now a standard product of PCI.
Boeing
Boeing was the first user of a Tricept 600 in machining and this machine has been in full production, three shifts, since 1996 and is still producing floor beams for the Boeing 727 and 737 with top quality. In 1999 Boeing also purchased the first Tricept 800 ever build to produce the heavier floor beams for the Boeing 767 and 747. This 800 No.1 has been in production three shifts since it was installed and has been awarded for the quality of the parts produced as well as for the uptime over the years.
Airbus
When Loxin in Spain entered an OEM agreement with Neos Robotics, Airbus quickly started to order Tricept systems from Loxin. The applications are mainly drilling and trimming and this is performed on large structural aero plane parts where the Tricepts are mounted horizontally on rails going parallel with the parts. While moving along the parts the Tricept performs an area by area probing sequence to guarantee that the machine coordinate system correlates with the part coordinate system before machining. In a particularly case the Tricepts drilled a couple of thousands of holes in eight (8) hours that used to take six (6) weeks.
JSF
Another area of successful delivery and installation is for the trimming and drilling of sixty three (63) different composite parts for the JSF fighter. One machine must be capable of machining all different parts, one after the other, in one sequence, for one plane, unmanned. To accomplish this the customer attached a high level automatic storage system that automatically changed the pallet in the machine sixty three (63) times in a row before the operator had to interfere.
Peugeot & Citroën
Other fields where the 600 and 800 have been used, but where the capability of these machines has been on its limits, is Automotive Power Train. However the PSA group, with PCI as Integrator, has successfully delivered and installed a number of machines for machining of engine blocks and cylinder heads and despite the fact that the machines are working on their limit the customer is very happy with the performance and the machines have now been running over five (5) years three shifts with really good uptime.
This market will open up with the new 9000 machine since it's designed for much higher cutting forces and better accuracies and therefore more suitable for this application.
Alstom
A relatively new area is trains and the first machine has been delivered to Ahlstom in Spain, by Loxin, for machining of windows and doors in train carriages. The application consists of a Tricept 800 mounted in a gantry with a 60m stroke that can machine two complete sides of a train in one set-up. The installation has been in production for some time now and this technology should now be ready to market further.
 
 
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