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Flexible machining cells and systems (FMS)
News Release from: 600 Centre | Subject: Mitsui Seiki HU80A machining centres FMS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2007
FMS machines titanium components
A flexible manufacturing system, consisting of four machining centres and an automatic pallet loading, handling and storage system, has been commissioned at a UK aircraft plant.
The 600 Centre of Shepshed has installed and commissioned a four machine flexible manufacturing system (FMS) at the Airbus site at Filton near Bristol, UK The project will produce key titanium components such as pylon brackets on the wings of the A320 Airbus
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Controlled by 600 Centre's recently appointed technical director David Holden, the Filton FMS project has four Toyoda Mitsui Seiki HU80A machining centres.
Two are HU80A 4-axis machines and two, HU80A-5X 5-axis trunnion versions.
Included in the project is a 20 pallet Fastems workhandling system with two work setting stations and tool transfer via two 7-axis robots involving a central tool store with a capacity of over 1,000 tools.
The FMS also incorporates the latest FSE 200 bar, Ultra Jet high pressure coolant system.
The Toyoda Mitsui Seiki HU80A horizontal machining centres have a working envelope of 1200mm in X, 950mm in Y and 900mm in Z with an 800mm pallet size.
However, the 5-axis HU80A-5X has increased Y- and Z-axis strokes of 1000mm and 1050mm respectively with the addition of a +10 deg to - 110 deg swivelling A-axis.
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