Super Heavy-duty Construction
The low center of gravity heavy-duty bed and 30° slant wedge saddle design provide a super rigid foundation for the headstock, turret, and tailstock. This creates the rigidity needed to perform super heavy-duty turning and maintaining long-term high precision accuracy. More rigidity also means extended tool life.
Built to withstand years and years of rigorous high production turning ; the heavily ribbed, one-piece thermally balanced bed and casting components are of " MEEHANITE " casting.
By using Finite Element Methods ( FEM ), highly reinforced ribbings are directly cast into the one-piece bed structure. Mechanical rigidity has been increased by more than 30% when compared to conventional designs.
Precision hand scrapedContact surfaces of all slides, headstock, turret, tailstock, and ball screw bearing housings with the machine bed are hand scraped to provide maximum assembly precision, structural rigidity, and load distribution.
All spindle and servo motors, including drives, are FANUC αi series components to ensure peak machining performance and accuracy.
X and Z axes are driven by over-sized FANUC AC αi series absolute servo motors, providing tremendous thrust outputs with faster acceleration and deceleration. Absolute encoder technology eliminates the use of limit switches, thus, eliminating referencing axes to home positions and broken limit switches.
Mechanical DesignUtilizing the latest 3D CAD design software to assist in machine development, and FEM ( Finite Element Methods ) to provide engineering analysis, we are able to create the best designs possible.