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News Release from: Fortron UK | Subject: Huron VX 10 VMC
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2008
Vertical machining centre offers high
precision
Equipped with high precision P-class linear motion guideways on all three axes, a high accuracy vertical machining centre offers high metal removal rates.
Fortron UK is now offering the Huron VX 10, which is a high accuracy vertical machining centre (VMC) designed to meet the demands of industry sectors where high metal removal rates are required, such as mould and die, fluid power and general engineering It features a powerful 16.5kW spindle providing cutting speeds up to 8,000 rev/min, which is fast and powerful enough to machine a wide range of material
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Equipped with high precision P-class linear motion guideways on all three axes, the VX 10 offers an optimal balance between machining performance, rigidity and accuracy, said Fortron to manufacturingtalk.
The VMC has rapid feedrates of 24m/min and acceleration of 5m/s2 in all three axes, and a cutting feedrate of 10,000mm/min.
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The heavily ribbed cast body structure has been designed using the latest finite element analysis software to absorb cutting forces and reduce vibration.
Larger than standard spans are used on the precision linear guideways to ensure stability and the Y-axis features four guides to increase the workpiece load on the table up to 800kg.
* Generous axis travels - axis travels are 510mm in Z- and Y-axis, while the X-axis is an impressive 1020mm.
The worktable is 1200mm x 500mm and is able to accommodate very heavy parts.
This allows either large parts to be single loaded or the multiple loading of smaller components for improved machine efficiency.
Productive machining is supported by a high speed 20-station disc type automatic tool changer (ATC) that changes BT 40 tools up to 80mm diameter by 250mm long and weighing up to 7kg.
The twin arm ATC has a tool-to-tool change time of just 2.4s with chip-to-chip achieved in 7s.
For the efficient evacuation of the large volume of chips that the VX 10 can generate the machine is equipped as standard with steeply angled internal guarding and programmable flush coolant to wash chips into the tray or on to the optional swarf conveyor.
Through spindle coolant is available as an optional extra.
UK sales manager at Fortron, Mark Devall, said: "In terms of accuracy and surface finish, the VX range of vertical machining centres is one of the best currently on the market.
It starts from the compact VX 4, with travels of 400 x 300 x 350mm in X, Y and Z, up to the range topping 1200 x 600 x 510mm travels available on the VX 12.
Positioning accuracies of 0.015mm are attained with a repeatability of +/-0.003mm for each model".
He continued: "We offer the VX 10 with the high performance Siemens 810D controller as standard, with the option of Fanuc 0i MC for customers that are more familiar with this system.
From October we will also be offering the new Heidenhain 620 system, which offers a number of productivity and programming benefits, including workshop-oriented programmability with graphic support, many field-proven cycles and an operational design familiar from other Heidenhain controls".
* Shop-oriented programming - the user can program conventional milling and drilling operations at the machine, in plain language dialog - the workshop oriented programming language from Heidenhain.
The TNC 620 provides the user with optimum support from practical prompts, questions and graphical aids.
Standard operations and even complex applications are available as a large variety of field-proven machining cycles or co-ordinate transformations.
The TNC 620 can also be programmed remotely, a fast Ethernet interface guarantees very short transfer times, even of long complex programs.
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