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Horizontal machining centres (HMC)
News Release from: 600 Centre | Subject: FH 630SX horizontal machining centre
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 December 2005
HMC machines ferrous, non-ferrous parts
HMC combines the power of a high torque spindle drive for machining high grade steels and cast iron with the capability for faster acceleration and rapid traverse rates for cutting aluminium.
latest Toyoda Mitsui Seiki FH 630SX horizontal machining centre combines the power of a high torque spindle drive for machining demanding high grade steels and cast iron with the capability for faster acceleration and rapid traverse rates normally associated with high speed machining of aluminium The horizontal machining centre will easily maintain the two main demands of production machining that centre on achieving high levels of productivity and process consistency, with the ability to remove metal faster with ever greater orders of accuracy
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The FH 630SX, now available from 600 Centre of Shepshed near Loughborough, has a BT50 taper main spindle with a heavy duty 30kW motor developing up to 600Nm of torque and a speed range up to 6,000 rev/min with rapid traverse rates of 60m/min.
The twin 630mm by 630mm pallet system has 1 deg indexing as standard with full NC contouring capability as an option.
Indexing time is 2s for 90 deg, - 2.4 seconds for 180 deg, and 12s for pallet exchange.
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The maximum loading for each pallet is 800kg within a cylindrical shape of 1000mm diameter by 1000mm high.
Such is the attention to detail that even at the machining position a clamping plate is used to run the full length of the pallet in order to eliminate distortion, a factor that can occur when any single clamp point is used.
Exact positioning for precise X, Y and Z-axis datum positions is determined by a combination of six-point verification using locating pins and hand scraped pads.
Axis travels are 1000 mm in X, 800mm in Y and 850mm in Z covered at rapid traverse rates of 60m/min and with an acceleration of 0.7G.
Unusually, the Y and Z-axis motion is activated through dual 45mm ballscrews that are located outboard, either side of the pallet table and clear of heat generation from the machining area.
Toyoda's low-friction roller bearing linear guides are utilised on all axes providing twice the rigidity and three times the vibration damping characteristics of traditional ball bearing systems.
The tool magazine as standard has a capacity of 40 units each weighing up to 27kg and up to 120mm diameter by 545mm long.
However, options of 60 and 120 tool magazines are available, as well as the Toyoda Mitsui Matrix-type magazine able to store more than 500 tools.
With this unit, four tools can be held simultaneously in an intermediate turret to minimise any toolchange delay, especially important when tools have very short cutting engagement cycles.
Non-contact tool breakage detection using laser technology is an option with sister tool replacement as well as non-contact tool identification with inductive reading and writing of data to a chip integrated within the tool.
Control is via Fanuc 31i with Toyoda's OP supporter software that has been developed to improve productivity, reduce set up, enhance tool and pallet management and provide maintenance functions.
Positioning accuracy through linear scales, fitted as standard, is +0.003mm, repeatability +0.002mm and both table indexing accuracy and repeatability is within +3 arc sec.
There are a wide range of cell and flexible manufacturing system options to further automate the machining process involving the FH 630SX including robotic loading, flat carriage, and stocker crane.
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