hasing titanium parts production for the Airbus 350 and Boeing 787 involves a serious commitment to technology. As part of its most recent $100 million expansion, Aerospace Dynamics International (ADI; Valencia, CA) chose two five- spindle MAG Ti profilers that can deliver more parts per cycle than single-spindle machines and comparable speeds and feeds. “The new MAG profilers, and others like them in our shop, simply make us more efficient and competitive in the global aerospace machining market,” explains ADI President and CEO John Cave. “We can complete up to five parts per setup, and always have the spindles making chips while new workpieces are being set up in another work zone, which minimizes out-of-cut time. In machining titanium, a single-spindle machine is limited to about the same speeds and feeds as our profilers, and even
MAG multispindle gantry profilers with five 5-axis spindles are capable of hard-metal or aluminum machining at ADI for aircraft parts.
with a fast toolchanger, a single-spindle machine is no match for one that completes five hard-metal parts in the same cycle. We get five parts in the same cycle time that a single-spindle needs for one part. That’s productivity-enhancing performance that we pass on to our customers,” Cave says. The two machines share a 120' (36.6-m) X-axis rail for multipart production advantage in machining titanium com-