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Horizontal machining centres (HMC)
News Release from: Fastems Divisions, Helvar | Subject: Twin-Mill multi-spindle HMC
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 October 2001
HMC has opposed twin spindles
Fastems showed for the first time at EMO a horizontal machining centre - the Twin-Mill - with twin opposed-spindles to machine small to large component batch sizes.
Fastems showed for the first time at EMO a horizontal machining centre - the Twin-Mill - with twin opposed-spindles to machine small to large component batch sizes The Twin-Mill can be used as a stand-alone machine, but it shows its real strengths as a key element in a manufacturing cell
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is flexible in concept and can be customised.
A machine can be equipped with four or eight spindles and can work on one workpiece from two sides, or alternatively, have several different workpieces on both sides of a fixture column.
Twin-Mill uses only one power supply, coolant system and chip disposal unit.
Depending on the customer, the machine accepts 400mm2 up to 630mm2 pallets.
A gantry, a robot or an operator can perform the loading.
According to machine layout up to 90 tools can be provided for each spindle, located nearby.
Chip-to-chip automatic tool changing times are around 5 sec.
Rapid traverse rate in all axes is 60m/min with high acceleration.
CNC is Siemens Sinumerik 840 DNC or a GE Fanuc CNC can be specified.
Identical or different programs may be used at each spindle.
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