Emco Group, which includes Emco Corp., Novi, Mich., is a machine tool manufacturer that provides multifunctional metalcutting machine tools. Across its 70 years, the Austrian machine builder has expanded its portfolio from a standard machine manufacturer to a turnkey solution provider delivering over 1,200 machines annually. Emco engineers a range of machine tools, from conventional turning and milling machines to CNC turning centers and vertical machining centers, as well as fully automated manufacturing cells and high-speed milling and drilling centers.
"Using our turnkey solutions, our customers are able to implement highly complex manufacturing processes at a reasonable price, as well as quickly and efficiently," said Managing Director Dr. Stefan Hansch.
The machines are used in moldmaking, the automotive industry and general engineering to produce high-volume components, such as wind turbine main shafts, hydraulic cylinders for construction machines, ship propellers and drill heads for oil production. Production sites are in Austria, Italy, Russia and Germany. Besides Emco and Emco Mecof, the Italian Emco Famup adds a complete line of production machines for the machining industry, including the Maxxmill 400 and 500 machines for the 5-axis machining of workpieces. Emco Magdeburg, a specialist in the field of vertical lathes and milling centers, is also part of the Emco Group.
Related Glossary Terms
- centers
centers
Cone-shaped pins that support a workpiece by one or two ends during machining. The centers fit into holes drilled in the workpiece ends. Centers that turn with the workpiece are called “live” centers; those that do not are called “dead” centers.
- computer numerical control ( CNC)
computer numerical control ( CNC)
Microprocessor-based controller dedicated to a machine tool that permits the creation or modification of parts. Programmed numerical control activates the machine’s servos and spindle drives and controls the various machining operations. See DNC, direct numerical control; NC, numerical control.
- gang cutting ( milling)
gang cutting ( milling)
Machining with several cutters mounted on a single arbor, generally for simultaneous cutting.
- metalcutting ( material cutting)
metalcutting ( material cutting)
Any machining process used to part metal or other material or give a workpiece a new configuration. Conventionally applies to machining operations in which a cutting tool mechanically removes material in the form of chips; applies to any process in which metal or material is removed to create new shapes. See metalforming.
- milling
milling
Machining operation in which metal or other material is removed by applying power to a rotating cutter. In vertical milling, the cutting tool is mounted vertically on the spindle. In horizontal milling, the cutting tool is mounted horizontally, either directly on the spindle or on an arbor. Horizontal milling is further broken down into conventional milling, where the cutter rotates opposite the direction of feed, or “up” into the workpiece; and climb milling, where the cutter rotates in the direction of feed, or “down” into the workpiece. Milling operations include plane or surface milling, endmilling, facemilling, angle milling, form milling and profiling.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
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