Large-Part Machining
valve seats, seal faces, phonographic sealing surfaces, O-ring grooves, straight/tapered threads, chamfers, external profiles and others. It is located immediately above the machine’s main spindle. The contouring spindle has a standard Sandvik
Coromant Capto C8 tool interface, which reduces tooling costs, and it loads tools via the machine’s automatic toolchanger for faster processing without operator involvement. Coolant through the contouring spindle at 20 Bar maximum pressure eliminates manual intervention and ensures maximum tool life.
Improve machine utilization.
Even in the dark. Rotary Loading System RLS – Your Entry into High-Efficiency Production
Economical – A basis for the cost-effective machining is optimizing the feeding of parts in and out the machining center
Flexibility – With its modular design, the Liebherr RLS Rotary Loading System offers a high degree of flexibility
User-friendly – The proven Soflex PCS cell controller is user-friendly and offers integrated order planning
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“The integrated contouring head can be used on any part with bored surface/ features [ID or OD]. This capability reduces the number of fixed boring tools needed for a job and provides the flexibility to also machining threads, face grooves, and other contoured features on parts like pump housings, valves, and blow out preventers,” said Peter Beyer, Fives Giddings & Lewis director of product strategy and development. “The application of contouring heads on boring mills is not unusual, however, the combination of the features we have incorporated into the contouring make it unique. To my knowledge we are the only company proving an integrated contouring head on a HBM with fully automatic toolchanging of two types of nonproprietary tooling.”
Energy Industry Relies on Boring Mill Technology
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“Our large boring mills are used for both subsea or on-land oil and fracking for natural gas applications for machining a variety of wellhead workpieces, includ- ing pumps, connectors, high-pressure manifolds,” said Jim Yeakley, southwest regional sales manager, SB Machine Tools (Schaumburg, IL). “With a boring mill you can use the contouring head and the W axis of the machine to power the U-axis head and blend the internal radi- uses of mud or fracking pumps as if they are on a lathe, which is a pretty unique usage of a boring mill,” said Yeakley. “Actually, there are two major as- pects for these types of heads. Because
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