Five-axis VMC maximises toolmaking productivity

Welsh precision toolmaker has acquired a five-axis VMC so that it can quickly switch between machining steel and graphite parts, enabling the company to maximise productivity.

Welsh precision toolmaker has acquired a five-axis VMC so that it can quickly switch between machining steel and graphite parts, enabling the company to maximise productivity.

Pontypridd, UK-based precision toolmaker FSG Tool and Die has made a significant investment with the purchase of a new Matsuura V.Plus-800 5-axis single table vertical hard machining centre with an advanced vortex extraction system.

FSG managing director, Gareth Jenkins explains; "With the new machine we can quickly switch between machining steel and graphite parts, enabling the company to maximise productivity not only of the Matsuura machine itself, but throughout the production process".

" Furthermore, the 5-axis capability means we can produce complex electrodes in one setting." The V.Plus-800 has a spindle range of 40-20,000rpm, positional accuracy and repeatability of 2-3microns and a machining accuracy of <5microns, enabling FSG to increase its manufacturing capacity in the high precision machining sector and giving it the ability to produce very high quality, detailed components, more efficiently.

Two members of staff have already attended a training course at Matsuura and further follow-up training at FSG's premises are planned Ultimately FSG plans to incorporate the Matsuura machine into its palletized automation and inspection system and finally to fit this cell into the EDM cell for complete in-line manufacture.

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