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"Metalcutting: Cells and Machining Centers"
Manufacturers can ramp up product
There will be more than one new
machine introduced at IMTS 2006 that will be billed as a China
beater, or as an India and rest-of-Asia beater, for that matter.
U.S. manufacturers ranging from entrepreneurial job shops to Tier
suppliers and general engineering manufacturers will have a chance
to hone their competitiveness with the latest advanced technology.
The usual ways to sharpen that edge are to reduce labor content and
cycle times, extend untended manufacturing capability, and deliver
parts machined complete in one setup to required precision-finish
quality.
Twin-Spindle Machine
Xi-Mill in 3 x 3 MM configuration is a twin carriage dual-spindle high-speed machining center for higher volume single and/or dual workzone machining. The X-Mill features two independently operating three-axis spindle modules. Two spindles are always machining either the same or two different parts. The X-Mill modules traverse at 2363 ipm (60 m/min), feed to 1181 ipm (30 m/min), accelerate at 0.5 g and have two 30 hp (22-kW), 15,000-rpm spindles.◊
Publication Information:
Society of
Manufacturing Engineers
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