FLORENCE, Ky., November 1, 2021 – Mazak demonstrated the productivity-boosting INTEGREX i-200H S Multi-Tasking Machine, with an optional gantry loader, at DISCOVER 2021. Like other INTEGREX i-H Series machines, the INTEGREX i-200H S features a design that increases part processing flexibility and enhances machine performance for significantly easier automation integration, allowing shops to boost the output of their existing workforces with the utmost in cost efficiency.
Mazak designed its INTEGREX i-H Series machines with the flexibility necessary to process a practically endless variety of part types without additional capital expenses. The machines allow shops to add a multitude of automation options – some of which are retrofittable in the field – as production levels dictate long after the initial purchase of the machine, ensuring easy access to continuous improvement.
The machines within the i-H Series sport ergonomic enclosures with compact footprints that require less floor space. In addition, Mazak equipped the machines with faster and more powerful turning spindles and space-saving milling spindles.
The INTEGREX i-200H S is the newest model in the INTEGREX i-H Series of machines with features that ease the integration of automation. These include front and rear tool setup, a flat-front design to accommodate robots, tool magazine placement at the machine’s rear side and an easily retrofittable automatic machine door. An optional gantry loader system features a compact design that lowers machine height and reduces loading/unloading time.
Requiring no additional robot system and without interrupting machine operation, an Automatic Jaw Changer (AJC) quickly exchanges jaws from turning spindle chucks with others in jaw stocker systems located above both of the machine’s turning spindles. These stocker systems have room for up to 10 jaw sets that can be loaded/unloaded while the machine continues to work uninterrupted.
The INTEGREX i-200H S sports both a main and second turning spindle (S) and a milling spindle headstock for DONE IN ONEÒ part production.
The INTEGREX i-200H S accommodates a chuck size of 8” and boasts a new extended Y-axis stroke of 8.27" and X-axis stroke of 21.06" for maximum part diameters of 23.62". The main and second turning spindles operate at 5,000 rpm, while the milling spindle comes standard as 12,000 rpm (24/22 kW), with a 20,000 rpm (24/22 kW) version offered as an option.
The INTEGREX i-200H ST also uses the latest Mazak control technology, the MAZATROL SmoothAi CNC. For fully optimized machining operations, the AI-powered technologies within the new MAZATROL SmoothAi control make for fast and easy programming, controlled spindle speed for reduced vibration and greater machine thermal stability. These Mazak technologies include Solid MAZATROL, which allows users to automatically generate programs from 3D part models; SMOOTH Ai Spindle, which automatically optimizes spindle speed based on sensor feedback to minimize machining vibration for superior part surface finishes; and Ai Thermal Shield, which adapts to and learns from environmental changes to control the effects of heat on machining accuracy.
In addition to new SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY solutions and control functions, the new control also provides access to Mazak’s MAZATROL TWINS software, which allows shops to create, on a PC, synchronized digital twins of real machines on their shop floors. The digital twins software solutions provide highly efficient machine operation through SMOOTH Project Manager that ensures efficient job setups and SMOOTH CAM Ai for an open and interactive interface for CAD/CAM software packages.