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Collet Chucks a Better Alternative to Three Jaw Chucks

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Collet Chucks a Better Alternative to Three Jaw Chucks
Royal Products is America’s leading manufacturer of precision metalworking tools and accessories for over 60 years. Our broad product line consists of hundreds of high-performance tooling and workholding products including CNC Collet Chucks, Collets and Collet Closers, Live Centers, Filtermist Mist Collectors, Albrecht Drill Chucks, Quick-Change Power Chucks, and Rota-Rack Rotary Parts Conveyor Accumulators. Workholding devices are easy to install, reasonably priced, and built rock-solid to handle the toughest jobs our customers can throw at them. In addition to our standard collet chuck line, Royal Products also offers a wide range of Custom collet chucks, fixtures and turnkey workholding packages.

Royal announces a low profile Collet Chuck for high speed operations with maximum rigidity.

Accu-Length CNC collet chucks are opening expanded milling machine & lathe application possibilities. Chucks are balanced by design for high-speed operation, and can often be run at higher speeds than conventional 3-jaw chucks because they are less prone to the negative effects of centrifugal force. All Royal Accu-Length collet chucks have been optimized for maximum outstanding rigidity, and all components are hardened for strength & durability. Fine adjustability master collets contain multiple keyways for fine adjustability. This is an especially useful feature for second-spindle applications. Unbeatable pricing. Not only does Royal Products build the highest quality collet chucks, for the most demanding applications, and deliver them immediately, but we do it all for a price that is significantly lower that the competition. Fair pricing has always been one of Royal’s core philosophies, and we pursue it aggressively.

Royal Products maintains a large inventory of CNC collet chucks to ensure immediate delivery, and each chuck comes complete with a custom-machined drawtube connector and all mounting hardware for hassle-free installation. Royal Products is an ISO-registered company dedicated to continuous improvement. We embrace lean manufacturing principles and have earned an excellent reputation among metalworking professionals for outstanding product quality. The right workholding systems can significantly boost turning productivity.

In addition to our standard line of CNC Collet Chucks we feature V-Flange Tool Holders, 5C and R8 Collets and Tooling, CNC Bar Pullers, Live and Dead Centers, Machine Shop Accessories, and Deburring Tools and Blades. Automation Systems conveyor accumulators for parts accumulation with steel turntable is available with Royal’s Rota-Rack for large volume collecting of finished parts.

http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/563927

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Advanced 3D CNC simulation

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Advanced 3D CNC simulation
CNC controls vendor NUM has introduced a 3D simulation package that combines workpiece simulation with collision monitoring and other features.

The CAE software allows machine builders to offer new generations of optimistion tools with their machines. Designated True 3D, the software tool is a general-purpose version of NUM’s 3D simulator for multi-axis grinding.

True 3D is said to be one of the first commercial CNC software simulation tools to combine both workpiece simulation and collision monitoring facilities.

It allows machinery users to virtually prototype and optimise the entire machine production process, to yield significant gains including improved machine productivity, reduced tool wear, and faster project completion.

The simulator visualises the tools, the machine’s kinematic properties and the workpiece blank as 3D volumes. Material volume is removed from the workpiece as the tool moves along the machining track according to the CNC program, while the same volume is continuously subtracted from the workpiece blank.

The 3D simulation calculates the entire process chain of a machine tool, from the ISO standard CNC program and its CNC processing, to the machining process.

http://www.manmonthly.com.au/Article/Advanced-3D-CNC-simulation/492934.aspx

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Versatile new cutting head and CNC simulator will be highlighted at EMO by NUM

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

At EMO 2009, the CNC controls vendor NUM will launch a ready-integrated tool head for sophisticated plasma, laser and waterjet cutting machinery applications, and exhibit an advanced 3D simulation package combining workpiece simulation with collision monitoring for the first time.

The new head design brings many technical advantages to the cutting machinery sector. Novel mechanical design means that the head provides the versatility of movement and stiffness required to implement precision cutting motion, but with the unique advantages of very low mass, and the elimination of cabling runs that must flex with the tool head movement and can cause failures. Due to its unusually light weight, the new head can be assembled easily on existing CNC machines in the plasma- and waterjet-cutting market often without additional mechanical adaptation – providing a very simple means of extending the capability of machinery from 2D to 3D applications, with precise multi-axis interpolation.

NUM will also publicly exhibit a new 3D simulation package for the first time. It combines workpiece simulation with collision monitoring and other powerful features. The computer-aided engineering software allows machine builders to offer new generations of optimisation tools with their machines – to help users to maximise manufacturing throughput and productivity. Designated True 3D, the software tool is a general-purpose version of NUM’s well-known 3D simulator for multi-axis grinding applications.

NUM’s True 3D is one of the first commercial CNC software simulation tools to combine both workpiece simulation and collision monitoring facilities. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the new software is not only emulating, but is simulating the actual CNC commands, hence the name True 3D, and subsequently provides an output as close as possible to the actual machined parts. It allows machinery users to virtually prototype and optimise the entire machine production process, to yield significant gains including improved machine productivity, reduced tool wear, and faster project completion.

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