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.

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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