J. S. Bruce Engineering Limited is a company set up to provide engineering support to manufacturing industry and to supply quality engineering products to businesses operating within that industry.

Our engineering expertise comes from the founders 38 years of experience in the manufacturing and machine tool industries, ranging from high volume Automotive Component manufacture through to Power Generation, Aerospace and Steel Industries.

Whether you need a drill head or a work holding system, a boring tool or a spindle unit, a tapping head or spindle tooling, we can supply high quality equipment to suit your needs, while ensuring that your specific requirements are understood and interpreted to your satisfaction.

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Evard Precision Work Holding Products
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Services

Engineering Consultancy
Do you have a production manufacturing or capability problem? J.S. Bruce Engineering have the expertise and experience to identify solutions to resolve your issues.

Project Management
We have all encountered the problems installing new equipment, processes or systems can have on your existing capabilities. By using our Project Management Skills you can relieve your already stretched engineering departments of the additional workload that can lead to costly delays

Advice on Special Applications
Sometimes standard manufacturing solutions are not the most effective way of solving manufacturing issues; J. S. Bruce Engineering have many years of experience in developing efficient manufacturing processes particularly in metal cutting applications.

Technical Support
Are you experiencing technical difficulties in your machining processes? The experience of J. S. Bruce Engineering can assist you in identifying and developing improvements in your machining efficiency.

Machine Tool Sourcing
Are you looking to increase your machining capacity? Purchasing the correct machine tool can be difficult and time consuming. We at J. S. Bruce Engineering can identify the most suitable equipment to suit you particular requirements. We are totally independent in our recommendations and owe no allegiance to any particular machine manufacturer or supplier

Machine Tool Design
With complex comments and high volume production it is not always possible to manufacture efficiently using standard machine configurations; J. S. Bruce Engineering have extensive experience in the design and application of special purpose machine tools. We can carry out preliminary design and costing to help you evaluate various methods f products as well as identifying suitable and capable specials machine builders.

Jig and Fixture Design
Using a combination of standard and special work holding and locating elements we can provide cost effective solutions to your work holding requirements, ranging from relatively simple fixtures to large complex multi stage devices.

Machine Tool Modification
Upgrade existing machine tools, add additional functions, such as live tooling adaptions to lathes, sub units to carry ut simultaneous machining operations on machining centres and boring machines.

Products

Vacmagic vacuum chucks and quick change pallet system
This is a unique patented product manufactured in the UK. It enables the vacuum clamping of components using a standard shop air line. The standard VM300 unit also doubles a a highly efficient pallet changer facilitating changeover in 20 seconds.

Somex/Suhner low cost automation equipment
Drill heads, spindle units, slide units and tapping heads from the worlds largest manufacturer of machine elements. Also available are Su-matic multi spindle heads and angle heads.

TW-IN Pro Magnetic Machine Vice
A drill vice that does not require clamping to the drill table. Clamp the workpiece in this high quality 125 mm wide vice and align with the drill spindle , press the actuation button and the vice sticks to he drill table using the built in electro magnets. Holes up to 20 mm dia can be drilled in complete safety.

Evard Precision Work Holding
Swiss precision work holding at it best. Muti-jaw vices, precision vices, pneumatically actuated precision vices. Check out this extensive range at very competitive prices

Spindle Tooling
Our comprehensive range of spindle tooling covers pretty much everything you will ever need eg , ER collet holders and collets, DA collet holders and collets, side lock holders, shrink fit holders and shrink fit machines, precision hydraulic chucks, parallel shangk holders, Tap holders, face mill holder, High speed balanced tooling etc. etc.

Lathe Tooling
VDI static tooling, CNC lathe driven tooling for any make of lathe out there.

Workshop Tooling
Chicks, collet chucks Machine vices, molar vices, Parlec vices.
Tool probes, tooling accessories, tool storage cabinets, Rotary Tables, 4th and 5th axis tables and oilmist extraction units.

Fibro Index Tables

Fibro Manta modular handling systems