First gantry milling machine with dynamic toolchanger
SHW Werkzeugmaschinen? EMO world premiere of its modular gantry milling machine
(PresseBox) - SHW Werkzeugmaschinen is exhibiting at the EMO for the first time its portal milling machine with gantry drive. PowerBridge has a completely new, dynamic toolchanger that exchanges tools while machining is going on and an operating platform that can travel in the work area. The innovative development and innovative modular design was sponsored by the German Ministry of Economics. But that is not the end of the story.
"Sometimes you don't only have to think laterally but put things laterally too," says Martin Rathgeb. Thus the technical manager of the SHW Werkzeug-maschinen GmbH laid the vertical column of an SHW UniForce machine on its side to create a portal milling machine. The completely new portal milling machine, developed jointly by the Aalen machine tool manufacturer together with the Austrian company Fill, also features two world firsts: a toolchanger which brings the tool to the spindle while machining is going on and an operating cabin which travels in the work area.
Tool delivered during machining
The toolchanger is as astonishing as it is ingenious. The tool required is not picked up by the spindle from the magazine but brought directly to the spindle by a robot no matter where it is. The robot is dynamically synchronised with the bridge and the tool is transferred synchronously to the toolchanger fork. The toolchanger can even supply two separate bridges with tools. Through this synchronised tool changing during machining, the user gains valuable production time.
From his travelling control console, the operator is always at the same height as the spindle and has a good view of everything. If he does not want this, perhaps because there is a risk of collision, he can park the operating console at any position he wants along the longitudinal axis in the work area.
Innovative concept worthy of support
In addition, the gantry machine convinces through its modular design with cross-over concept. Through this, SHW Werkzeugmaschinen can use similar components both for travelling column machines and for portal milling machines. What is particularly clever here, however, is that the bridge is able to use the modular concept of the travelling column machine. Thus three different machines with traversing distances between the driving heads of 3100, 4100 and 5100 mm respectively can be realised. The German Ministry of Economics recognised this innovative approach as worthy of funding. The first PowerBridge machine with these ground-breaking innovations and two bridges will be exhibited by SHW Werkzeugmaschinen at the EMO.
And a further innovation is already in the pipeline. A laser tracking system that continuously measures and compensates for any set/actual value deviations of the main axes of the PowerBridge during machining. But that's another matter.
A young company with a long tradition
SHW Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH is a leading manufacturer of machine tools for the machining of large components. On the CNC machining centres with long travel axes, components and castings for mechanical and plant engineering, turbine and tool manufacture or for the aviation industry are produced, which despite their large size also call for a high degree of precision. What started in Aalen-Wasseralfingen in 1999 as a young, dynamic company can actually look back on an industrial tradition stretching back to the year 1365. Steady growth and commitment to its Swabian roots by its approx. 200 highly qualified and quality conscious employees have led to annual sales of around 65 million euros. Representation in 45 countries worldwide ensures close proximity to the customer.
A young company with a long tradition
SHW Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH is a leading manufacturer of machine tools for the machining of large components. On the CNC machining centres with long travel axes, components and castings for mechanical and plant engineering, turbine and tool manufacture or for the aviation industry are produced, which despite their large size also call for a high degree of precision. What started in Aalen-Wasseralfingen in 1999 as a young, dynamic company can actually look back on an industrial tradition stretching back to the year 1365. Steady growth and commitment to its Swabian roots by its approx. 200 highly qualified and quality conscious employees have led to annual sales of around 65 million euros. Representation in 45 countries worldwide ensures close proximity to the customer.
Datum: 30.07.2013 - 11:26 Uhr
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