Builder changes CNC automatic lathe names

To clarify the position of small CNC automatics - designed to replace cam automatics - for producing small accurate, short and long parts, Tornos has changed its machine model names.

At EMO 2007, Tornos showed Manufacturingtalk the Micro 7 CNC automatic and said it was changing the name of the existing Deco Sigma 8 model to 'Micro 8'.

Tornos wishes to clarify its position in the market.

The Micro range will be directed primarily at the market where the 'Micro' series will replace the cam-type turning machines.

For more than 50 years, Tornos has been producing machines intended for the production of workpieces of average geometric complexity, where flexibility has unfortunately been handicapped by cam-type technology.

Since 1996, Tornos has been offering an interesting alternative in the form of its Deco machines.

However, these multi-axis machines, intended for 'workpieces with highly complex geometry' never really responded to the expectation that they might one day 'replace cam-type machines'.

Now, with Micro 7 and Micro 8 Tornos is offering an entirely new alternative, that has already started to replace cam-type machines (with the Micro 8 (formerly the Sigma 8)).

There are now three complementary machines covering a range of diameters up to 10mm, allowing Tornos customers to choose the produce best suited to their needs.

* Micro 7 - long workpieces with geometries of average complexity.

* Micro 8 - short workpieces.

* Deco 7/10a - workpieces with highly complex geometries.

The single-spindle Tornos range comprises the following units, as follows.

* Deco machines for workpieces with highly complex geometries, up to 26mm in diameter.

* Sigma for workpieces with average geometric complexity and larger diameters of up to 32mm.

* Micro for small, high-precision workpieces with average to high geometric complexity.

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