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News Release from: C Dugard | Subject: Hedelius RS80 Kombi vertical machining centre
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 March 2006
One pendelum VMC machines 3- and 5-axis
cycles
Combined 3-axis and 5-axis pendulum machining cycles on a single moving column vertical machining centre are to be demonstrated, improving productivity by at least 40%.
Combined three-axis and five-axis pendulum machining cycles on a single machine tool are to be demonstrated on a Hedelius RS80 Kombi moving column vertical machining centre employing the company's ROTA Swing technology on the C Dugard stand 5237 at MACH 2006 The RS80 Kombi, shown for the first time in the UK, enables higher productivity pendulum machining cycles to be utilised to tackle the machining of say, each of the six faces of a component or two totally different parts to be produced simultaneously by loading one side of the table while the other is machining
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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ROTA Swing technology has been developed for both production and mould and die sectors where by both three-axis and up to five-axis simultaneous operations can be performed on the same bed.
So for instance, initial clamping on the flat portion of the bed can enable the machining of the datum face of a component on one side of the table.
It is then relocated and the other five faces machined using the trunnion fourth and fifth axis unit mounted at the opposite end of the table.
The machine is also able to hold right angle heads and special attachments in the spindle and such is the area of the fixed table that indexing, rotary, swivelling and compound table units are easily accommodated.
The Hedelius ROTA Swing machines are available in four sizes with tables from 2300mm to 4500mm, spindle tapers of SK50, HSK100 and HSK80, spindle powers of up to 55kW and speeds of 24,000 rev/min.
For MACH 2006, C Dugard is demonstrating the smallest RS80 Kombi with an X-axis of 2300mm, Y-axis is 800mm and the Z-axis 770mm.
The rotating C-axis within the trunnion is 800mm diameter with a swivel range of 100 deg.
* C Dugard at MACH 2006, NEC, Birmingham, UK, May 15-19, Hall 5, Stand 5237. Request a free brochure from C Dugard ...
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