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News Release from: 600 Centre | Subject: Fuji high production CNC lathes
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 September 2007
Dual spindle CNC lathes offer high
production
Latest high production CNC lathes include a dual-spindle, dual-turret lathe with swing type robot automated part handling and a five-face machining cell.
Three recent additions to the Fuji range of high production CNC lathes were demonstrated at EMO 2007 by one of the largest suppliers of automated lathes to the automotive industry The machines are as follows
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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* A Fuji ANW 35 dual-spindle, dual-turret lathe with swing type robot automated part handling.
* A TNW 35 dual, opposed-spindle and twin-turret machine with driven tools and gantry robotic handling.
* HM 34, five-face machining cell.
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EMO 2007 visitors saw a precise, highly automated production involving 'one-hit' machining cycles.
Fuji Machine Tools is represented throughout most of Europe by 600 Group company 600 Centre of Shepshed, Loughborough in the UK, providing turnkey project expertise and service support to the Japanese company.
In 2006, Fuji sold 1,250 machines to the automotive, bearing and transmission sectors worldwide and has some 4,300 installations in car giant Toyota's global automotive operations and component suppliers.
* ANW 35 - the ANW 35 is now a mainstay of the Fuji turning business with a rigid, vertical column design enabling swarf to fall away from the cutting zone.
Dual spindles with 18.5kW drives, able to accept workpiece sizes up to 250mm diameter by 110mm long, are controlled via Fanuc 180i-TB control.
The integrated swing-arm robotic handling via Fuji's own L292 - L unit can carry two components weighing up to 7kg and provide almost universal access to the loading/stacking equipment at the front, back, left or right hand side of the machine.
* TNW 35 - the TNW 35 machine has two opposed spindles of 15kW, 4,200 rev/min and will cater for a maximum worksize of 190mm diameter by 105mm long.
It features two, 10-station driven tool turrets mounted on the 30 deg slant cast bed with box way slideways for high rigidity and long production life.
The machine has a fully integrated L676-H gantry robotic loader with 20-station work stacker as standard.
* HM 34 - the compact 1.8m by 2.1m Fuji HM 34 is a fully automated milling cell based on a lathe design with a 4-axis simultaneous capability to provide five-face machining on chuck held components with a diameter of 300mm by 120mm long.
Controlled by Fanuc 210i-MB, the machine has an option of a six, 10 or 15 position all-driven turret with maximum rotational tool speed of 5,000 rev/min.
The turret can also be fitted with angular tool holders to create a B-axis capability.
A Fuji L292-B robotic arm is included to provide fully automated processing and is able to carry two components weighing up to 10kg each.
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