5 axis machining centres

Kyal launches Alzmetall five-axis VMC

Kyal Machine Tools has introduced the Alzmetall GS 1000 five-axis high-precision vertical machining centre (VMC).
In addition to conventional, high-speed and hard-metal milling and drilling, the VMC can also perform turning operations up to 600 rev/min.
The GS 1000 has a gantry design with frame parts made of EN-GJS 500 (GGG 50) and EN-GJL 300 (GGL 30) [...]

AandG reduces setups using Hurco machining centres

The installation of two machining centres from Hurco Europe has allowed Lancashire subcontractor AandG Precision to attract more work and produce components more efficiently in fewer setups.
The company is a producer of complex components used in key military and civil aircraft programmes.
It is also active in a number of other sectors, including defence, marine, petrochemical, [...]

Hardinge expands five-axis machine tool portfolio

Hardinge Machine Tools, a milling, turning and grinding machine tool manufacturer and workholding equipment supplier, has boosted its five-axis machine tool product portfolio with the GX 250 5-AX.
GX 250 5-AX machines – which have a small, compact footprint – provide customers with: the ability to machine completed precision parts in single (one-hit) or reduced setups; [...]

Matsuura launches large-capacity 5-axis machine

Matsuura has announced the launch of the last in the Cublex series – the large-capacity Cublex-63, a multi- tasking, mill-turn, multi-pallet 5-axis machine.
Offering a maximum work size of 630mm x 450mm with a loading capacity of 350kg, the Cublex-63 has been designed for true multi-tasking process integration – all coupled with Matsuura’s ‘unmanned running’ functionality.
The [...]

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Mastercam’s High Speed Toolpaths Increase Efficiency and Automation

Mastercam’s new 2D High Speed Toolpaths can make your current processes more efficient & automated, while at the same time minimizing programming & cycle times. Now, you can have the benefits of high speed machining in your 2D work.
Tolland, CT – With the release of Mastercam X3, high speed machining is being introduced into a [...]

CNC machining aerospace engine parts,structurals

NCMT will feature the milling of aircraft structural parts and grinding of engine components using the VIPER process at the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow.
NCMT will feature on Makino machine tools the CNC milling of aircraft structural parts and CNC grinding of engine components using the Rolls-Royce VIPER process at the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow * [...]

5-axis VMC benefits from linear motor drives

A simultaneous 5-axis vertical machining centre has the advantage of ultra-short positioning times through the use of linear drive systems in each of its three main axes.
The Deckel Maho simultaneous 5-axis HSC 75Vlinear vertical machining centre (VMC) has the advantage of achieveing ultra-short positioning times through the use of linear drive systems in each of [...]

Latest 5-axis machining technology demonstrated

Hurco will demonstrate at the USA’s IMTS 2008 its latest 5-axis machining technology as well as multi-tasking machine tools and its larger machining centres.
Focussing on 5-axis technology, multi-tasking machines and large sized machining centres, Hurco will demonstrate at the USA’s IMTS 2008 machine tool exhibition how productivity and profit are increased by its integrated control [...]

Matsuura machining centre doubles productivity

A five-axis Matsuura MAM72-63V machining centre machines jobs in two clampings that previously needed four/five operations on three-axis machining centres at Atlantic Precision Engineering.
Of the many subcontractors in the UK serving the growing aerospace sector, Atlantic Precision Engineering is unusual in that, since it was established in 1992, it has specialised in machining both metallic [...]