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News Release from: Wealdown Integrated Systems | Subject: Mutispindle machining system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2002
Flexible automation cuts cycle times by
two thirds
An interesting twist on mutispindle machining is a machine that can be fed either from its own hopper, manually or directly from a sawing machine.
Wealdown have recently installed a new machine with an interesting twist on mutispindle machining The machine, which was built to turn both tube and solid bar components has CNC control on all 12 spindles, 6 station indexing spindles at each end and an initial capability of parts from 4 - 32mm in diameter and from 70 - 1000mm in length
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Parts are stationary, handling and machining are carried out fully automatically and the system can be fed either from its own hopper, manually or directly from a sawing machine.
This makes the machine very quick to set and change over from component to component.
The company purchasing this unit run batches from as little as 3 through to 5,000 at a time.
This unit effectively replaced 2 standard high quality sub spindle CNC lathes which were producing completed components in around 1.5 minutes and now gives cycle times of a maximum of 27 seconds on the most complicated part produced there.
Some of the parts are now run through in around 7 seconds or less.
The machine carries out operations such as straight turning, undercutting, grooving, chamfering, boring, threading [both cut and rolled] plus rolled forms on tube on both ends of the part simultaneously.
Accuracies at least equivalent to the previous methods are achieved, with considerably less intervention from the operator.
Initially purchased to cope with batches in the range of 50 and up, the workforce have found it so simple to use and set, that the very small quantities are put through as well.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 29 October 2002).
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