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High speed machining centre is precise too
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Mikron product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Apr 30, 2001
Futura Mecanique de Precision's most recent acquisition is a Mikron UCP 710 five-axis high-speed machining centre to manufacture precise, complex housings for the aviation work.
Futura M?canique de Pr?cision is ISO 9002 certified and licensed by Dassault and A?rospatiale, as well as car manufacturers and companies in the nuclear power industry.
"Controlled growth" is the slogan of Director Philippe Jeulin, who took over in 1992, and he first invested in conventional machines before moving up to CNC systems.
One of the company's most recent acquisitions is a Mikron UCP 710 five-axis high-speed machining centre.
Philippe Jeulin explains, "We manufacture complex housings and components for the aviation industry, made of aluminium or magnesium alloy.
That requires drilling work with all kinds of spatial layouts.
Without the Mikron five-axis machining centre, with its powerful tilting rotary table, it would not be possible to handle a housing in a single chuck set-up." At the plant in La Naurai Bachaud, France all the metal cutting machines are positioned in the middle of the workshop, arranged in a U configuration according to the processing sequence: lathes - milling machines - finishing.
The grinding machines are set up in a separate area because of the dust they create, as are the shot-blasting machines.
Round the circumference of the machining workshop are satellite areas for measuring, testing, assembly and disassembly and welding work.
Further advantages of the UCP 710 mentioned by Jeulin are its ideal speed for producing required surface quality, particularly for magnesium, and the extremely robust slide rail which has no protruding parts.
At Futura M?canique de Pr?cision programming is carried out on the machine, due to the requirement to machine individual parts and small production runs.
Jeulin comments, "We set up a part using the tilting rotary table before we process it with H6 precision for all holes." Machining accuracy, as is the norm for the aviation industry, is between +/-3 micron and +/-5 micron, sometimes even +/-2.5 micron.
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