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Machining centre offers high speed cutting
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Haas Automation product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Sep 22, 2005
Machining centre provides high-speed drilling and tapping, as well as full milling capabilities, in an affordable, compact package designed to pump up a shop's parts volume.
Time is money and machine shops are always looking for ways to produce more parts in the same amount of time - or less.
For high-volume production of small parts, where cycle times are short and part loading and unloading are frequent, reducing non-cutting time to a minimum is crucial to maintaining a favourable cost per part.
The MDC-500 High-Production Centre from Haas Automation is a machining centre that provides high-speed drilling and tapping, as well as full milling capabilities, in an affordable, compact package designed to pump up a shop's parts volume.
Speed and flexibility were the key design criteria for the new machine.
It features dual 508mm x 324mm fixture stations that allow the operator to load and unload parts on one fixture, whilst the machine mills, drills and taps parts on the other.
Once machining is complete, a servo-powered, gear-drive indexer swaps the fixture stations in 4.7 seconds.
The MDC-500 provides a work cube of 508mm x 356mm x 508mm (X, Y, Z)) and features a 7500 rev/min (10,000 and 15,000 rev/min optional) 40-taper spindle.
Powered by a 20HP vector drive system, the spindle has plenty of torque for milling, as well as the speed necessary for high-speed machining operations.
High-pitch ballscrews and high-torque servos on all axes provide rapids to 25.4m/min reduce cycle times, and a side-mount tool changer (24+1 tools) swaps tools in 2.2 seconds, claimed Haas.
To keep plenty of coolant available for any machining operation, the MDC-500 features a 40-gallon coolant tank and a high-volume coolant pump.
The user-friendly Haas CNC system provides seamless machine operation and is easy to learn and operate.
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