Addy Machinery Open House

WHAT TO EXPECT

Today’s auto makers continue to revamp and shift production emphasis from one vehicle model to the next, and those in the industry need to adapt and keep pace. With a key focus on automotive parts processing, the Addy Machinery Open House will feature some of the latest productivity enhancing systems and technologies from Mazak that provide the flexibility and performance crucial to maintaining competiveness in the ever changing and extremely challenging automotive industry.

TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION

VARIAXIS i-800

This highly versatile vertical machining center sports a table size of Ø31.5” x 24.8” and uses its simultaneous 5-axis capabilities to perform multiple and complex curved surface machining on larger workpieces in single setups. It provides dramatic reductions in lead-times and improves workpiece accuracy through the elimination of multiple setups. As a demonstration, it will be machining cast steering components held in Busche workholding fixtures.

HORIZONTAL CENTER NEXUS (HCN) 5000 III

Featuring a high-speed, high-accuracy direct-drive rotary table, this horizontal machining center achieves high-speed, high-accuracy positioning via its advanced headstock design, providing unsurpassed automotive part processing flexibility and significant reductions in non-cut time. When paired with a palletized automation system and vertical machining center, the machine contributes to extreme levels of production versatility and unattended operations. The machine will be outfitted with Sandvik tooling and Tombstone City workholding for a deep-hole drilling demonstration.

VERTICAL CENTER UNIVERSAL (VCU) 500A/2PC

Ideal for those basic automotive workpiece geometries, this simple, yet innovative, 3-axis vertical machining center features a twin-pallet changer that boosts uptime and ensures continuous uninterrupted production. Such efficient automation enhances productivity by allowing operators to load, unload and inspect parts on one pallet, while the machine continues to work undisturbed at the other pallet.

INTEGREX i-100ST

With Mazak’s new SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY, this multi-tasking machine adds gear cutting to its capabilities in addition to the high throughput it brings to small complex part production. The machine has two turning spindles, a milling spindle and a lower turret for processing first and second machining operations simultaneously or performing required sequential operations on a single workpiece. At the open house, the machine will perform gear skiving operations.

VERTICAL CENTER NEXUS (VCN)-530C

This vertical machining center’s single worktable allows shops supplying the auto industry to process large parts or multiple smaller workpieces in a single machine setup. The machine comes standard with a 15,000-rpm spindle that provides an effective balance of speed and torque for the fast and heavy-duty cutting of various materials used in today’s vehicles.

QUICK TURN UNIVERSAL (QTU) 250

While simple in its design, the 2-axis turning machine has innovative qualities that bring optimum efficiency, accuracy and value to high-volume small parts production. Perfect for the automotive industry, the machine employs a 20-hp, 6,000-rpm spindle and features a zero-backlash integral spindle/motor headstock that gives the machine extreme rigidity for heavy-duty machining along with unmatched precision for high-speed applications.

As a complement to the Mazak technology, Addy will welcome automation provider Automated Controlled Engineering (ACE) to the open house event. The Ann Arbor, Michigan, company will demonstrate one of its automated cells that allow those shops in the automotive industry to increase overall output with less capital equipment.