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News Release from: Turning Technologies UK | Subject: Super NTY3 twin-spindle, 3-turret mill/turn centre
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2007
Mill/turn centre has Y-axis on all three
turrets
Having Y-axis operation on all of its three turrets give a twin-spindle, mill/turn centre means that almost any type of complex component can be machined in one set-up.
Nakamura-Tome , has introduced the Super NTY3 twin-spindle, three-turret mill/turn centre, which is novel in having a Y-axis capability on each of its three turrets Each turret has 24 tool positions, offering up to 7.5kW of milling power on any station
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Whether it is shaft work, bar work or chuck work, the key to a compact, twin-spindle CNC lathe's productivity is its one-hit machining capacity in an extremely compact space.
With up to 72 driven tools available at any time, almost any component, however complicated, can be machined in 'one hit'.
By using all three turrets, operations can be balanced between the spindles to deliver the shortest possible cycle times.
The Super NTY3's novel configuration offers possibilities that include simultaneous machining with three tools and three Y-axes, and 4-axis machining on either turret.
For example, on complex medical or aerospace components, the upper and lower turrets can use the same program to simultaneously machine opposite sides of any prismatic features, or perform simultaneous helical interpolation on the upper and lower faces.
Nakamura said that the Super NTY3 can reduce cycle times by up to 60%, when compared with a twin-turret machine having just one Y-axis turret.
* Capacity - the Super NTY3 can swing parts up to 175mm diameter and 588mm, and has a chucking capacity of 165mm diameter and a 42mm bar capacity through either spindle - all within a 'footprint' of just 2780 x 1970mm.
The Nakamura Tome Super NTY3 will be exhibited for the first time in the UK at the MACH 2008 exhibition as part of UK agent Turning Technology's participation on the Engineering Technology Group stand.
Turning Technologies is the sole UK distributor for Nakamura-Tome high-precision, high-productivity turning machines.
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