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Heavy duty HMCs offer even less down time
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StarragHeckert UK product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
May 20, 2003
Breaking new ground for a machine tool company is a range of four axis heavy duty HMCs for the five-side machining of components weighing up to 8 tonnes and edge lengths up to 3000mm.
Breaking new ground with its range of four axis 'Athletic' heavy duty horizontal machining centre range, the StarragHeckert HEC 1000, 1250 and 1600 are ideally suited for producing components using five-sided machining with edge lengths up to 3000mm and weighing up to 8000kg.
Now available from StarragHeckert UK of Brackley, the HEC range of machines have a spindle power of 50kW and speed options up to 10,000 revs/min.
The machine range has the added flexibility of an NC quill travel of 500mm or a pivoting horizontal/vertical head configuration which is able to develop 30kW and 6,000 revs/min for five-sided machining applications.
Even on the larger HEC 1600 machine rapid traverse rates are quick at 40m/min while a 'P' version of the HEC 1000 is able to traverse at 60m/min.
High versatility for a wide range of machining applications on larger parts in a single operation ensures higher accuracy and geometric positioning of component features and the HEC 'Athletic' series has been specifically developed for these requirements.
Automatic changing of tools up to 325mm diameter by 800mm long can be made from a chain-type conveyor having 60 or 80 pockets.
The magazine can be extended to incorporate tool towers with 120, 180 or 240 tool positions.
Twin-pallet changing systems are standard with the added flexibility that the pallets can be fed from the front, laterally or in a combination of both directions.
Pallet sizes are 800mm by 1000mm or 1250mm by 1600mm according to machine size.
The machine can be specified with 360 degrees by 1 degree indexing as standard or with full NC rotary table.
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