Product category:
Workholding - miscellaneous clamping systems, components
News Release from: Schunk Intec
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2006
Show success for workholding and
automation
At MACH 2006 German workholding and automation specialist Schunk Intec had a resounding success.
At MACH 2006 German workholding and automation specialist Schunk Intec had a resounding success The Newport Pagnell based UK subsidiary of Schunk received a high number of enquiries, which was completed with a number of orders at the show
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Schunk UK General Manager Martin Kent believed the show was a success saying: "We had an excellent position in hall 5 and the visitors that came past the stand (5129) showed a great deal of interest in what we exhibited.
The stand had a large number of innovative new products that had not been previously seen in the UK - and this undoubtedly contributed to our considerably high enquiry level." Particular interest was paid to the Unilock Quick Change Pallet System that provides accurate and repeatable set-ups of workholding fixtures for production run machining and grinding operations.
By employing this clamping system, workpieces can be set and moved through multiple machining operations with a minimum of resetting; cutting set-up time up to 90%.
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Unilock consists of stationary modules that are installed individually or in multiples directly on a production machine's worktable or tombstone.
Existing workholding devices such as vices, chucks or special workholding fixtures are mounted on the Unilock "clamping plates" that mate precisely to the modules.
Schunk found that the major factor that interested customers and visitors to the stand was the opportunity to reduce set-up times.
This was apparent by the high level of enquiry for the Unilock system and the Rota NCD 3 jaw power chuck with a large through bore.
The Rota NCD 3 jaw power chuck accommodates conventional hard and soft jaws, plus Schunk's patented hard and soft machineable collet jaws.
The collet jaw principle is realised via radial serrations in the bore of the base jaws, such that the collet jaws locate via these serrations in the bore of the chuck and provide a clamping range equivalent to the jaw stroke of the chuck.
As a consequence this universal chuck adequately bridges the gap between a universal chuck for billet / forging / casting application and the bar machining capability of a collet chuck.
Mr Kent continues: "Slow change-over times when producing small batch quantities can often undo the gains achieved by sophisticated machine and cutting tools, the Rota NCD chuck and Unilock system virtually eliminate this downtime.
This was demonstrated to a number of subcontractors that visited the stand and the feedback and enquiry level for this product proved MACH 2006 was an exhibition that was well worth attending.
Reducing set-ups and downtime is a major factor on the shop floor and Schunk are at the forefront of this technology." Also popular at the exhibition was the Tribos Micro-Mini range of products for secure and precise clamping of tools with small shank diameters.
The new addition to the Tribos toolholding family is capable of clamping diameters as small as 0.3mm (0.012") with h6 shank tolerances achieving a run out better than .003mm, thus complementing latest generation "state of the art" machine and cutting tool technology.
Based on the Tribos polygonal clamping technology, the Micro-Mini eliminates the need for special cutting tools with larger tool shanks, thus reducing costs, set up times and enhancing productivity. Request free introductory details about products from Schunk Intec ...
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