CNC system speeds steel profiles drilling

CNC steel profiles/sections drilling system is equipped with three simultaneously operating drilling units, one for drilling in the profile's web and the other two drilling units for the flanges.

Over the course of many years Voortman has developed a complete line of equipment for the automatic drilling of steel profiles.

The V603 is one of the CNC drilling systems from this line.

* Drill units - the V603 is equipped with three drilling units, one for drilling in the web of the profile and the other two drilling units for the flanges.

These three drilling units work simultaneously, resulting in a high production speeds.

To further increase these production rates the new V603 uses not only HSS drills but also the latest tipped drills.

To achieve optimum speeds, feeds and machining conditions the drill units are equipped with automatic electronic controlled feeding and regulation for the number of revolutions.

The drills are also internally cooled by air/oil mist lubrication, due to this the profile can directly, after drilling be coated.

On the input side of the machine the profiles web, flange height and width are automatically measured.

One of the major changes also with the machine is the positioning of the profiles the V603 drill system can be equipped with a Feeder truck or with Feeder rolls.

* Feeder truck - the V603T is supplied with a feeder truck; the truck is fitted with a material detector.

Due to this detector all common profile types can be used without adjusting the measure system.

The feeder truck moves at high speeds towards the material and slows down as soon as the material is detected.

Then the profile is brought into position for the drilling process automatically.

The starting length is measured during the infeed of the profile automatically and traced and checked prior to drilling.

* Feeder rolls - the newest innovation of Voortman is the V603M, a drilling system with a feeder rolls positioning system.

By application of the feeder rolls positioning system the V603M can be simply integrated into existing handling systems.

The hydraulic clamping unit clamps the material horizontally with two feeder rolls (driven) and two pressure rolls (un-driven) and vertically by four pulling cylinders, which are also fitted with rolls.

The measuring takes place by means of measuring discs, these are mounted on the input and output side of the machine and are automatically set on the correct height of the web.

* Automatically in- and out-feed - although there are manual controls for the in and outfeed of the profiles the Voortman drilling systems are fitted with a fully automatic system for the transporting of the profiles through the system.

The fully automatic system transports the profiles from the infeed cross transport into the drilling system.

Next, the selected hole pattern will be carried out.

Finally, the products will be transported onto the outfeed cross transport, automatically.

* Online support - the computer numerical control of the machines can also be easily integrated into the companies computer network system.

Located in Belgium the company 'Mahieu Metaalbouw NV' has recently acquired the V603 Drill/saw system and the V550 Punch-/shearing system and with the help of a 3D CAD program, data is exchanged by a wireless network connection directly to the machines.

As a result of using a CAD program generating DSTV-data to control the V603M manufacturing errors are eliminated.

It is also possible to contact via an Internet connection a Voortman software-engineer directly, so should there be any questions or problems the Voortman software engineers can answer the question or solve the problem online.

A web cam is also delivered with the V603 so the software-engineer can get live images from the V603 and communicate with the operator.

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