fi nal product requires no further machining or fi nishing and is passed directly on to the fi nal assembly stations in the factory. Volker Große, application engineer in the plastics milling and welding department at Meerane, said, “When servic- ing our machine tool spindles, we noticed above-average spindle wear. This was caused by the tool clamping system we were using at the time. As a result of toolholder imbalance, vibrations were being transferred into machine spindles. This resulted in exceptionally high tool wear and chatter marks on fi nished products. In particular, for high-speed machining at speeds of 38,000 rpm, the toolholder balance played an even more critical role. We needed a solution—fast. We decided to test our heat-shrink fi xtures against Rego-Fix powRgrip tool- holders that clamp tools without having to heat holders.” During the comparison, powRgrip displayed the obvious strengths of its system advantages. The powRgrip holders offered the lowest overall imbalance, and even after multiple clamping and unclamping cycles, these values remained constant.
Volker Große and Lutz Hennig display a typical application of combined composites in automotive body and door panels and instrument center consoles, which are ma- chined by SMP, one of Europe’s leading plastic component processing companies and a system partner supplier to the global automotive industry.
“In the past, we noticed wear on the tapers of our heat-shrink holders, and after repeated heat-shrinking cycles, the result was
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