IMTS Pavilion: Abrasive Machining/Sawing/Finishing
“At IMTS, they will also show how their machines re- duce the need for service and improve tool generating cycle times,” Riddiford pointed out. “The result you can look for is increased grinding capacity using less floor space. More accessories with the tool grinders will provide greater flexibility for producing many different tool designs.”
multiple processes, such as grinding, milling and drilling, and make automation integral to the machine’s functionality.” “At IMTS, we will showcase the Mägerle MFP 100 surface and profile grinding center with automatic toolchanging,” Marchand said. “It can grind, mill and drill, making it useful for shops that require multiface machining of heavy and com- plex workpieces in a single clamping operation. It also offers high working speeds, quick tool changes and an expandable toolchanger system that can hold up to 60 tools. It is possible to load the toolchanger with tools such as drills, milling cut- ters, CBN wheels and measuring sensors.” The company’s tool division will highlight the Walter
brand’s new Helitronic Vision 400, which includes a grinding wheel changer and robot loader with up to a 7500 tool capac- ity for the mass production of rotationally symmetrical tools, including milling cutters, hobs, drills, formed tools and more made from HSS, HM, Cermet, ceramic and CBN.
Hardinge Grinding Group’s Usach 75, a cylindrical bore and face grinding machine.
“The new ANCA EDGe, on the show floor for the first time at IMTS, has the flexibility to erode PCD [polycrystalline diamond] tools and grind carbide and HSS tools on the same machine. It is suitable for a wide variety of tools and applica- tions. The EDGe-Spark generator monitors and controls the energy level of every spark for optimum surface finish, mate- rial removal and cycle time,” Riddiford said.
Responding to Global Pressures
Larry Marchand—vice president, Surface & Profile Divi- sion, United Grinding North America Inc. (Miamisburg, OH)—sees global competition leading customers to strive to maintain a competitive edge:
“Several of our customers are adopting new, leaner business practices, purchasing more efficient equipment and using automation to a higher degree to remain globally competitive,” Marchand noted. “We find ourselves proactively responding to customers’ needs for complete turnkey grinding manufacturing solutions. In fact, we’re seeing increased de- mand for surface and profile grinding machines that perform
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“Machine builders will respond to users’ needs for faster cycle times, grinding more complex parts by offering better software, innovations in abrasive material, and automation.”
At IMTS, the company will be featuring the Usach 100- T4, a smaller machine used for precision parts in a job-shop situation. “It’s a very universal machine,” Rey said. “It has an
Big Solutions for Energetic Customers Daniel Rey, director of sales—North America for Hardinge Grinding Group (Elmira NY), has seen an uptick of interest in grinding machines that can handle large parts for two sides of the energy industry. “We have customers in the wind-energy market making transmission components for wind-turbine gearboxes. And on the oil and gas side of the industry, in Texas, there are customers who are looking to expand and modernize their grinding equipment, which they use to grind components used in downhole drilling.” Although the size of those components sound daunting—they can be up to 3.6 m long and weigh up to 5000 kg—the material challenge
is...the material, which Rey said is “almost as abrasive and as hard as the grinding wheels themselves, making it hard to remove material without excessive wear on the grinding surface.”
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