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News Release from: Cincinnati Machine | Subject: Vertical spindle machining centers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2006
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The latest innovations in vertical spindle machining centers for the aerospace, heavy equipment, off-road, energy and job shop industries include VMCs for titanium and composites machining.
Cincinnati Machine exhibits the latest innovations in vertical spindle machining centers for the aerospace, heavy equipment, off-road, energy and job shop industries in Booth A-8218 at IMTS 2006 As the world's leading innovator in vertical spindle technology, Cincinnati Machine has consistently advanced the productive capabilities in the industries it serves and helped its customers achieve a competitive advantage in the global economy
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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New Wide Range Profiler Cincinnati Machine has responded to the dramatic increase in the use of composites and titanium in the aerospace industry with a new version of the industry's workhorse, Cincinnati's Wide Range Profiler line.
A newly re-designed spindle support housing reduces overall moving mass and will significantly improve Z and B-axes servo response and machining dynamics.
Extensive finite element modeling, a core in-house engineering area of expertise for Cincinnati Machine, was utilized in the re-design of this critical structural moving element of the machine.
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Customised CNC with wizard screens used in VMCs
A customised CNC is believed the most user-friendly, reliable and highly specified CNC on the market, and is available with a range vertical machining centres.
VMCs can be tailored for specific purposes
New cast iron structure features a range of vertical machining centres, available in four model designations and three performance packages, to tailor machines to different applications.
Five-axis VMCs feature high precision tilt head
A range of 5-axis fixed table VMCs has a high precision spindle head that features up to +/-95 deg tilt in the A-axis and full 360 deg contouring in the C-axis - ideal for machining complex parts.
Coupled with the Siemens 840D control's capabilities, the new machines are more accurate than previous models, and produce superior surface finishes as well.
Cincinnati Wide Range Profilers are designed to allow multiple gantries on a common set of rails, with many installed machines equipped with five or more gantries.
Although alternative configurations are available, nearly all Wide Range Profilers are configured as five-axis machines with three to five spindles.
* New U5-1500 Universal Machining Center - Cincinnati has responded to the aerospace industry trend toward larger, more complex, parts with a new model from the proven U5 Series of Universal Machining Centers.
The U5-1500 offers a 50% increase in Z-axis travel to a full 1.5m and a heavier structure required to deliver full machine performance throughout the entire machining envelope available on this extended range model.
The U5-1500 uses the same high-torque geared heads proven on other models of the highly successful U5 family.
The expandable X-axis rail structure of the U5 family is also retained, a proven configuration appropriate to the larger parts the new model is intended to produce.
Four different head configurations are available for U5 Universal Machining Centers, and the automatic head changer makes switching from one to another a fast, program controlled operation.
U5 machines are widely used in the aerospace, heavy equipment, off-road, energy, and job shop industries.
* HyperMach - visitors to the Cincinnati Machine Booth at IMTS 2006 will be able to view a video presentation of the fastest metalcutting machine in production today, the HyperMach, capable of continuous metal removal rates of 500in3/min.
A high-speed, linear motor design based on proven components, the HyperMach is available in both rail-type traveling gantry and bridge-type configurations as a plate mill or router.
Due to its modular design, the HyperMach product line is extremely versatile for parts up to about 120' in length.
The most popular version of the HyperMach is the twin-spindle configuration, which manufacturers have recognized as a highly productive alternative to the traditional three-spindle gantry machine, as well as large single spindle gantries.
At a cost only slightly higher than a three-spindle gantry of similar capacity, the HyperMach provides more than twice the throughput, plus a much wider range of practical applications.
* A new X-axis drive for standard Vertical Product Line - among the other advances to be featured at IMTS, is a new X-axis drive system for the company's large gantry-type machines, including the U5 Universal Machining Centers, High-Performance Twister, HyperMach, and High-Performance and Wide-Range Profiler lines.
Utilizing advanced control technology, the new drive eliminates the special gearbox previously used and substitutes two servomotors acting through commercial planetary drives.
By programming the control to constantly create a torque load between the two drives, the new system eliminates backlash and lost motion without the need for the previously used spring-loaded system in the gearbox.
The result is higher reliability, reduced maintenance costs and fewer rebuilds over the life of the machine tool.
The drive system also delivers a 10 to 20% increase in feed rates, which allow for significant improvements in throughput.
* About Cincinnati Machine - Cincinnati Machine designs, builds and integrates advanced manufacturing solutions for the global aerospace, heavy equipment, energy and general machining markets.
The company's broad machine tool line includes automated composites processing equipment, profilers, routers, large horizontal and vertical machining centers including 5-axis, multi-tasking and cells.
Cincinnati Machine, together with Giddings and Lewis and Cincinnati Automation and Test, makes up Cincinnati Technologies, a unit of MAG Industrial Automation Systems.
* About MAG Industrial Automation Systems - MAG Industrial Automation Systems (MAG-IAS), Sterling Heights, MI, is a group of leading machine tool and systems companies serving the durable-goods industry, worldwide, with a large portfolio of highly-recognized and well-respected brands.
With manufacturing operations on five continents, MAG-IAS ranks as a leader in the global metalworking capital equipment market.
* Cincinnati Machine at IMTS 2006, Chicago, USA, September 6-13, Booths A-8218 and A-8232.
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