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St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Micro Medical Instruments<br />
Installs Citizen K16EVII Swiss<br />
Micro Medical Instruments,<br />
Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, has<br />
recently installed a new Citizen<br />
K16EVII Swiss turning center.<br />
The 22-year-old firm<br />
specializes in producing micro<br />
surgical instruments for the field<br />
of opthamology. Founded by<br />
Steven Davis, a 37-year industry<br />
veteran, the firm started out in a<br />
Above: Steven Davis.<br />
2-car garage and has grown to<br />
its current 7,000+-sq.-ft. facility<br />
with 14 employees. Micro<br />
Medical Instruments’ products<br />
are distributed worldwide. Most<br />
of its instruments are produced<br />
out of stainless steel or titanium<br />
and many require a microscope<br />
for final finishing and inspection.<br />
Tight tolerances are the norm for<br />
the <strong>com</strong>pany.<br />
The new Citizen K16EVII<br />
(purchased through McClain Tool<br />
& Technology) was needed to<br />
improve the <strong>com</strong>pany’s speed and<br />
efficiency.<br />
Micro Medical Instruments<br />
had purchased a Citizen L25<br />
Turning Center<br />
Above: Micro Medical Instruments’ new Citizen K16 Swiss turning center.<br />
(through McClain Tool &<br />
Technology) in 1996, which is still<br />
in use. “The McClain people are<br />
great to work with,” stated Davis.<br />
“When it came time to add another<br />
turning center there was no need to<br />
think about where to buy it.”<br />
The K16EVII features a 15,000rpm<br />
main spindle, a 10,000-rpm<br />
pickoff spindle, 7-axis, 23 tools<br />
including seven live and a 12’<br />
barfeeder. “The K16 has been a<br />
big plus all the way around,” noted<br />
Davis. “It can run unattended and<br />
takes us so much further in our<br />
instrument production and even to<br />
finished parts. Its capabilities with<br />
smaller parts are amazing.”<br />
“We concentrate on quality<br />
and on-time delivery,” continued<br />
Davis. “Combine that with our<br />
great people (the average tenure<br />
at the firm is over 12 years) and<br />
you can see the reasons for our<br />
success.”<br />
Micro Medical Instruments can<br />
be contacted at (314) 845-3663.<br />
JANUARY, 2012 5
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