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News Release from: Delcam | Subject: PowerMILL CAM system at Farnborough
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 May 2008
CAM aids twin spindle milling of wing
ribs
Delcam will show at the UK's forthcoming Farnborough Air Show examples of milling of Airbus A320 wing ribs using CAM developed for a CNC twin-spindle milling machine.
Delcam will will display a range of parts made using machining and inspection CAM software on the North West Aerospace Alliance stand at the UK's Farnborough Air Show to be held from July 14-20, 2008 Programs written using Delcam's PowerMILL CAM system were included in a turnkey package developed by Chiron for Magellan Aerospace to machine a range of wing ribs for the Airbus A320
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The complete package was based around a Chiron Duo Mill advanced machining system and Delcam PowerMILL CAM programs.
The Duo Mill uses twin 90kW spindles to simultaneous 5-axis machine port and starboard wing ribs.
Delcam said that 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.
The cube fixture 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.
Haydn Martin of Magellan said: "The reason for having a Duo twin spindle machine, with two identical set-ups 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, 5-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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