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News Release from: Delcam | Subject: CAM system - 5-axis machining
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2007
Wing ribs machined in five axis
programmed by CAM
CAM system has been used to make programs to operate an advanced, twin 90kW spindle machining system for the 5-axis milling of wing ribs.
Programs created using Delcam's PowerMILL CAM system have been included in a turnkey package developed by Chiron for Magellan Aerospace to make a range of wing ribs for the Airbus A320 The package is based around the new Chiron Duo Mill advanced machining system, which incorporates twin 90kW spindles to allow simultaneous five-axis machining of port and starboard wing ribs
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Magellan is one of the largest UK suppliers of detail components into wing build at Airbus.
It produces around 1,300 different parts for Airbus and is represented on all of its programmes.
The Duo Mill machine has a 4500mm overall bed length with twin swivel head spindles operating on twin working areas.
Each working area holds a 2m by 450mm rotating cube fixture that can be lifted out for in-cycle loading and allows full machining of the ribs in two operations - machining one side from billet and finish machining the semi-finished rib from the previous cycle.
As Haydn Martin of Magellan said, "The reason for having a Duo twin spindle machine, with two identical setups on either side of the machine, is that we produce a port and a starboard rib at the same time.
Every time the machine cycles you are getting a finished pair of components, so it is a single piece flow process that reduces machine down time." He added that full, five-axis machining with the swivel head means that there is no need for deburring on features such as the rib feet. Request a free brochure from Delcam ...
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