Turning Center with Live Tools and Digital Features
The 10-in. turning center, which is one of three rotary tool M-Class Hawk models, has maintenance-free linear guideways that reduce sliding friction to one-fiftieth that of conventional guideways, according to the manufacturer. In addition, the machine is designed with a 45° slant bed and cast iron construction that is said to provide exceptional rigidity, vibration damping, and chip removal efficiency.
The machine's servo-driven VDI turret mounts 12 tools and is designed with bi-directional indexing on the fly without disengaging the drive. This results in high-speed indexing and fat 0.3-sec chip-to-chip times. All turret stations have live tooling capability, enabling mixing and matching of static or powered tools.
The machine's main spindle features a full contouring C-axis drive with 0.001° resolution. The machine has rapid traverse rates of 944 ipm (24 m/min) in the Z-axis and 630 ipm (16 m/min) in the X-axis.
A single-range gearless spindle drive powers a hydraulically actuated 10-in. (250 mm) chuck. The high torque, 3300 rpm spindle drive motor delivers full 25-hp (18.5 kW) with 184-ft/lb (250 Nm) of torque at 750 rpm. In addition, the machine's toothed-belt drive can virtually eliminate side loads on the spindle and motor bearings, according to the manufacturer.
A tailstock with programmable quill is standard, and a large thru-hole provides capacity to process 3-in.-dia. (77 mm) bar stock. Maximum machining swing is 26.77-in. (680 mm), machining diameter is 13.78-in. (350 mm), and machining length is 26.37-in. (670 mm).
The GE Fanuc 21i-TA CNC control is standard. The control is designed to offer rapid and user-friendly machine-to-machine and machine-to-PC communications.
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