YCM Alliance
Published

VMC Designed for Aerospace and Power Generation Turbine Blades

The Vertex 500-5XB five-axis CNC VMC from Mitsui Seiki is designed for producing turbine blades from forgings, castings, barstock and solid billets of titanium and stainless steel.

Share

The Vertex 500-5XB five-axis CNC VMC from Mitsui Seiki is designed for producing turbine blades from forgings, castings, barstock and solid billets of titanium and stainless steel. The machine’s footprint measures approximately 65 square feet and the XYZ working envelope measures 550 × 600 × 500 mm. Rapid traverse rates are 48 m/min. in all linear axes. The A and B axes are represented in a rotating/tilting table, with the A axis tilting from +45 to -90 degrees and the B axis offering infinite positioning points. According to the company, the rotary axes improves manual and automatic load and unload operations, such as the integration of a robot and cellular manufacturing capability. The VMC features a cast bed and “box in a box” design for a rigid machine structure, the company says. All guideway mounting surfaces are hand scraped to increase volumetric accuracy. The spindle configuration is designed to cut hard titanium and stainless steel grades and is controlled by a FANUC control system.

Related Content

  • Buying a Lathe: The Basics

    Lathes represent some of the oldest machining technology, but it’s still helpful to remember the basics when considering the purchase of a new turning machine. 

  • Choosing The Right Grinding Wheel

    Understanding grinding wheel fundamentals will help you choose the right wheel for the job.

  • How to Start a Swiss Machining Department From Scratch

    When Shamrock Precision needed to cut production time of its bread-and-butter parts in half, it turned to a new type of machine tool and a new CAM system. Here’s how the company succeeded, despite the newness of it all. 

YCM Alliance
Gardner Business Intelligence
EZ Access - Have it all with Ez - Mazak
SolidCAM
DNS Financial Services America
Gravotech
BIMU 2024
High Accuracy Linear Encoders
YCM Alliance