Automatic Tool Changer vs. KUKA Robot on CNC Horizontal Boring Mill.
Which one is faster?
There are still plenty of room for workers in modern factories: it’s just neither to their benefit nor to that of the manufacturer to expose them to unwanted physical burdens, spinal injuries, dismemberment, and other health risks.
Simple CNC machines work with a single tool. Turrets can work with a large number of tools. But if even more tools are required, then ATC is provided. An Automatic tool changer or ATC is used in computerized numerical control (CNC) machine tools to improve the production and tool carrying capacity of the machine. ATC changes the tool very quickly, reducing the non-productive time. Generally, it is used to improve the capacity of the machine to work with a number of tools. It is also used to change worn out or broken tools. It is one more step towards complete automation.
The ATC can hold up to 40 tools which is not bad while the KUKA Robot can have 105 tools to work with or even more as long as it is within it’s reach. A KUKA Robot used as an automatic changing system for tools and heads provides many benefits in the machining process. It has minimal maintenance or service interventions, gives you the possibility to change tools into various accessories and attachments and provides no interference in the work area normally encountered by the required rail of the traditional mechanical tool changer.
FERMAT, http://www.fermatmachinery.com/, provides robots and automatic tool in its range of optional accessories on all its CNC horizontal boring mills, http://www.fermatmachinery.com/products, including its standard workhorse WFT 13 CNC, http://www.fermatmachinery.com/wft-13-cnc, and its newer version WFT 13 R CNC, http://www.fermatmachinery.com/wft-13-r-cnc, with ram stroke, making CNC machining a snap.
Please visit, http://www.fermatmachinery.com/products, for information on the different FERMAT machine tools and accessories that can improve your manufacturing business.
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Should you have any enquiries, please send us an e-mail: export@fermatmachinery.com, or for the U.S. market, e-mail Lucas Precision, a FERMAT Group company: info@lucasprecision.com, or call toll-free: 1-800-336-1262, or telephone in the U.S.: (216) 451-5588, or send us a fax (216) 451-5174.
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