Horizontal Machining Centers
HMC Cuts Exotic Materials for Aerospace
Okuma’s MA-12500H horizontal machining center is well-suited for large-part aerospace machining in aluminum alloys, cast iron and difficult-to-machine materials.
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Turning Center Capable of Gear-Cutting, Milling and Drilling
EMCO Maier’s Hyperturn 65 Powermill offers a spindle clearance of 1,300 mm along with a counter spindle to enable four-axis machining and a B axis with direct drive for five-axis simultaneous milling operations.
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The Foundry's Way Forward
An established supplier of short-run castings just opened and staffed a new, fully equipped, in-house CNC machine shop. Taking ownership of machining will improve the company’s range of services to customers as well as its quality control.
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Spotlight Slideshow: Machining Centers
Automatic pallet changers and support for automation are some popular features of recently released machining centers. View the December slideshow for more on these machines.
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HMC Offers Flexibility in Cutting Capabilities
Kitamura Machinery’s Mycenter-HX500G horizontal machining center, part of the company’s G series of machining centers, is designed for medium to large parts that require flexibility in cutting capabilities.
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HMC Designed for Faster Cycle Times
OKK’s HMC500 horizontal machining center features a 500-mm pallet to accommodate large workpieces and is intended to provide faster cycle times.
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Five-Axis HMC Equipped with Work-Pallet Magazine
Makino’s a51nx-5XU five-axis horizontal machining center incorporates a fifth-axis table and work pallet magazine, and is intended to serve as an alternative to single-pallet-load vertical machining centers for machining of small parts.
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HMC Enables Aggressive Cutting of Large Workpieces
The FH630SX-i horizontal machining center from Toyoda Machinery USA is a 630-mm-sized linear guideway machine that offers a standard 8,000-rpm spindle providing 37 kW (1,009 Nm) of torque and features dual ballscrews on the Y and Z axes.
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Two-Spindle HMC for Four- and Five-Axis Machining
SW North America’s BA 322 is a compact, twin-spindle horizontal machining center designed for four- or five-axis machining of small to medium-sized steel, cast iron and light-metal workpieces.
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A Case Study in Craftsmanship
With some 300 models of machine tools on offer, and new technologies such as the i5 CNC control now on the market, SMTCL is showing aggressive—and impressive—growth.
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