Simmons Machine Tool Corporation has expanded throughout the world together with its partner companies within the NSH Machine Tool Group. Simmons manufacturers the broadest product line of special machine tools for wheelset maintenance and production worldwide.
Our product portfolio contains:
Underfloor machines for in-situ wheel profiling of locomotives, transit vehicles and high speed trains.
Portal Type wheel lathes and surface wheel lathes for reprofiling of single wheelsets.
Wheel Mounting and Demounting Presses for assembling wheelsets and removing wheels from axles.
Wheel Boring Machines
Axles lathes for maintenance of used axles and production of new axles.
Metrology and Measuring Systems integrated with Simmons’ wheel boring machines and wheel presses for fully automated ‘zero defect’ assembly of wheelsets.
Stand-alone wheelset measuring systems and axle measuring systems.
Engineered-to-Order wheelshop layouts. Simmons provides engineering consulting services to assist customers with layout of new facilities and rearranging existing facilities.
Customer Service. Simmons stocks the largest inventory of spare parts specifically for ensuring uptime of our customers’ railway machine tools.