Automation
Haas To Offer NASCAR-Inspired VMC
To commemorate the partnership between NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and Haas Automation founder Gene Haas—co-owners of Stewart-Haas racing—Haas is building a limited-edition Tony Stewart VF-2SS VMC. The first special-edition machine tool the company has ever designed and built features a special racing paint scheme as well as sports decals of Mr.
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The Part Is Longer Than The Lathe
Here is one custom machine builder’s system for producing a 40-foot part that has to be passed through the turning center and out the other side. INCLUDES VIDEO.
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Servo-Controlled, Automated Balancing
Universal Balancing’s range of balancing machines can be equipped with on-station correction facilities for semi- or full automation of the balancing process. Typical automated, on-station correction includes drilling, milling and welding heads.
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Video: Parts Gripper Allows Machine To Act As Its Own Robot
This footage shows a workpiece gripper that enables a machine to load and unload workpieces on its own.
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Horizontal Leap Helps Shop Change And Grow
Migrating from short-run jobs and prototyping to tackling complex defense compartment components during the past few decades has kept business humming at Proteus Manufacturing. However, increased business led to new production challenges. With a single Kiwa HMC from Methods Machine Tools that can perform the work of three of the shop’s other machines, Proteus has realized substantial cycle time savings and incorporated “lights-out” operations.
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Automation On Demand
A workpiece gripper that installs in a machine tool's spindle enables the machine to serve as its own robot.
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Five-Axis VMC For Accurate Hard Milling Applications
The company offers a five-axis version of its V33i hard milling VMC, the V33i-5XB. The VMC will be integrated with an Erowa robot at the show to demonstrate how shops can utilize automation in high-accuracy hard milling applications.
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Programmable Tool Verification And Breakage Control System
The Mida Laser 75P non-contact programmable tool setting system incorporates a protection system with air-tunnel effect, a powerful integrated microprocessor for best performance under coolant, an active drip rejection filter and enhanced noise reduction with double filtering technology. The programmable system can be adapted to the tool type under verification, to the same rotation speed used during machining and to the desired measuring cycle. The system is available with a “collimated” or “focused” laser beam.
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The compact Kiwa-Japan KH-41 HMC is 60. 2" (1,530-mm) wide and can handle a variety of workpieces, providing an ideal entry-level factory automation solution, the company says. The HMC has a full rotary B axis and can be installed in the same space as a vertical machine.
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Specialty CAD CAM Reseller
The CAD/CAM reseller specializes in programming seven-axis robots with Robotmaster CAD/CAM; providing complete machine communications for all CNC equipment with Cimco DNC-Max; and machining two- through five-axis tool paths with Mastercam CAD/CAM software. The company also offers service, support, training and consulting. .
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