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Puma V8300 Heavy-Duty Vertical Turning Center Features ATC
Doosan Machine Tools’s Puma V8300 15” class vertical turning center has an automatic toolchanger (ATC), a larger workzone, increased rigidity and enhanced user convenience and is available in right- or left-hand versions.
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MircoPro Milling Machine Increases ROI
Kern Precision’s MircoPro four/five-axis milling machine is powered by the HSK40 spindle and has feed ranges up to 1,181 ipm and 42,000 rpm.
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Multitasking Takes a Turn
Turn-mill machines are known for their capabilities in single-setup part production. Here are two very different examples of shops that are using multitasking to their advantage in medical machining.
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CVG-6 Vertical Cylindrical Grinder Has Pallet Changer
Taiyo Koki Grinding Machine Co.’s CVG-6 vertical universal cylindrical grinding machine with pallet changer is able to grind OD, ID and faces all in one part chucking.
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Six-Axis Compact Line is the Solution for Grinding Inserts
Ewag’s six-axis Compact Line machine is a high-precision, compact and flexible solution for the grinding of inserts in tungsten carbide, cermet, ceramic, PCBN and PCD with peripheral grinding also included in the machine’s capabilities.
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DeHoff 2072TC Gundrilling Machine Has Five-Axis Capability
Kays Engineering Inc.’s DeHoff 2072TC is a gundrilling machine with five-axis capability, a spindle mounted on a traveling column to provide the X-axis and Y-axis movement, and a CAT 40 spindle mounted on the traveling column to enable secondary operations.
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Five-Axis Rotary Table for Small VMCs
Exsys Tool Inc.’s five-axis rotary table TAP is for small, high-speed vertical machining centers and allows users to upgrade a vertical machining center to increase productivity without incurring the expense of a new machine.
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Colchester MultiTurn CNC Lathe Increases Versatility
600 UK’s Colchester MultiTurn two-axis manual/CNC lathe is a flat-bed CNC lathe that incorporates the Siemens 828D control with Shopturn as a standard feature, although FANUC 0iTF with Manual Guide can also be fitted.
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RBS Fourth-Axis Rotary Table Series is for Single-Axis VMCs
Koma Precision Inc.’s RBS fourth-axis rotary table series is suitable for single-axis VMCs and was built using a ball drive system featuring zero backlash, improved cycle times, energy conservation and a lifetime adjustment-free transmission system.
Read MoreMoving Vertical Turning Up
There is always room for improvement, and transitioning from vertical turning to inverted vertical turning can be one way to improve your shop’s efficiency. The benefits of inverted vertical turning include a smaller machine footprint relative to horizontal turning centers of similar capacity; multitasking capabilities; and maybe the biggest benefit—chips fall away from the spindle into a conveyor in the machine base and out of the workzone.
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