Hargreaves, vice president, business development, Mas- tercam/CNC Software Inc. (Tolland, CT). “In the past, the majority of these machines were programmed manually because they were very high volume, running for months at a time, and the user had a lot of time to get the next part programmed. What has changed is that due to CAD/ CAM and the ability to program much faster, smaller shops are picking these machines to do much smaller quantities, sometimes as little as a thousand parts and they need faster turnaround,” said Hargreaves. “A lot of people are using these B-axis equipped ma- chines for basically 3+2 type of work where positioning is in three axes and pocket or drilling operations are performed. Even if they are just the drilling and pocketing, they don’t have to set up additional tools, making the machine that much more efficient,” said Hargreaves. “The next step is machining complex shapes and surfaces. We’re seeing an evolution where customers are moving from using it as a
programmable fixed axis to actually starting to change the design and look of some of their parts so they have much more complex shapes that require simultaneous motion and CAD/CAM systems to program and machine. Fortunately for us we had a great suite of toolpaths that we were using in the traditional five-axis market that we were able to plug into our Swiss product,” said Hargreaves.
B Axis Offers Versatility Across Product Lines “Our new M4 Series of machines is available in 16, 20 and 32-mm versions,” said John Antignani, executive vice president, Marubeni Citizen Cincom Inc. (Allendale, NJ). “They have three machining sections: a slide on the main spindle; a turret that can work either on the main spindle or the back spindle; and a Y-axis slide which is predominantly for the back spindle. All the machines come with or without B-axis capability, with B-axis capability on both front and back spindles of our machines.”
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