MILLING & TURNING


Mitsui Seiki’s hybrid prototype Blue Arc machine can do both Blue Arc and conventional machining on one platform. Shown here with the machine is GE’s Dr. Andrew Trimmer, a staff research engineer at GE Global Research, which has been improving GE Blue Arc’s performance and process control for machining diffi cult-to-machine alloys and low rigidity materials over the past 10 years.


Advanced Technology Depends on Controls, Design


Don’t settle for less than the most up-to-date technology


Jim Lorincz Senior Editor


N 74 AdvancedManufacturing.org | January 2017


othing seems so obvious in subtractive machining than that milling and turning processes really are very different: single point vs. multipoint tools; rotating workpiece vs. rotating tool; static tool vs. rotating tool, etc. And yet we have witnessed the harnessing of these two very important and dissimilar processes to work together on the same machine; alternately on mill-turn-type machines or simultaneous- ly on so-called multitasking machines. The magic that has made this possible is found in the programming capabilities of ad- vanced CNC controls as well as in machine design that accounts for the forces at work in removing material in the most effi cient way possible. So whether you are talking about entry-level ma- chining or sophisticated multitasking solutions, the requirements always involve choosing the right machine technology.


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