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News Release from: Colchester-Harrison | Subject: Vertical machining centre with geared head
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2007
Vertical machining centre has geared
head
To maximise productivity when milling and drilling from a 22kW, 6,000 rev/min ZF geared headstock design, a vertical machining centre has high rigidity and high lateral stiffness in its structure.
High rigidity, in order to maximise productivity when milling and drilling from the 22kW, 6,000 rev/min ZF geared headstock design of the Colchester-Harrison Storm VMC 1600S vertical machining centre, was high on the development agenda of the latest version that uses genuine Meehanite castings and hardened and ground solid boxways The Storm VMC 1600S, that forms part of the latest 600 Centre of Shepshed, Loughborough machine tool portfolio, weighs in at 14 tonnes
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This heavy duty machine reflects the structural ribbing that provides high levels of lateral stiffness, good damping characteristics and high orders of thermal stability.
It has travels of 1600mm by 800mm by 700mm, a table size of 1700mm by 815mm and a table loading capacity of 2.2 tonnes.
Saddle and table are both powered at 15m/min in the X and Y axes through 40mm pre-tensioned ballscrews and, to offset the weight of the heavy duty geared headstock, mechanical counterbalance is rigged inside the column and the Z-axis servomotor directly coupled to its ballscrew.
This axis will attain 12m/min rapid traverse and a cutting feed rate infinitely variable up to 5000mm/min.
The geared headstock and 6,000 rev/min spindle has a BT 50 taper as standard with options of BT 40 and a 10,000 rev/min belt-driven variant.
A high speed 24 tool, twin-arm toolchanger is standard with an option of a 32 tool chain-type magazine with twin-arm exchange.
Toolchange time is within 2.5s.
Control options include Anilam 6000 M and Fanuc OiMC.
Both employ easy to interface conversational programming, G-code or CAM and a host of production and mould and die type features.
Heidenhain's popular i TNC 530 system is also available on request.
Further options to the Storm VMC 1600S include through tool coolant, fourth-axis interface, pallet loading, spindle cooling and choice of belt or screw type swarf conveyor.
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