Machine Tool Attachments & Accessories

Triumph Aerostructures' Vought Commercial Division has ordered two MAG Precision Mill/Trim (PMT) gantry systems for its Hawthorne, CA plant to keep pace with strong market demand. The two high-speed PMT gantries, inaugurating a new high-performance router platform, will be used to produce aluminum wide-body fuselage skins for next-generation commercial aircraft.

One of MAG's newest product developments, the giant 6-axis U6 bridge-type portal mill, is completing its runoff in Hebron, KY, prior to shipping later this year.

Race Engine shops can now CNC port cylinder heads and blueprint and machine engine blocks on the same machine with no fixtures to swap or realign. The latest CENTROID A560 5-axis machine tool with its patented ball screw driven 5th axis articulating head comes from a long line of CENTROID machines designed specifically for Internal Combustion Engine rebuilding, development and hot rodding.

Mitsui Seiki USA Inc. has developed a specially-designed, 5-axis CNC vertical machining center for the production of turbine blades from forgings, castings, bar stock, or solid billets of titanium and stainless steel.

Okuma America Corp. introduced the new LT-3000EX CNC lathe. The LT-3000EX is now the largest in Okuma's LT-EX series of horizontal lathe machines.

Makino announces its new A-Series 5-axis horizontal machining centers for high-speed, high-efficiency aluminum machining of large, thin aerospace structural components, including wing spars, wing panels and floor beams.

Presented as an online supplement to Cutting Tool Engineering's August 2012 report on "New Life for Old Iron," the following video offers a look at several examples of machines retrofitted by Machines in Motion Inc. with the help of Centroid CNC controls, Yaskawa drives and motors, Magnescale positioning scales, and Atrump CNC machinery.

Metalworking Product Review

Users reap the rewards of high-speed milling when the elements of the machining system complement each other.

Machine Technology column as published in the July 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.

Mollart Engineering's LD4 Drillsprint deep hole drilling machine offers a 750mm stroke complete with full automatic loading and unloading along with a range of the latest deep hole drill tooling from Botek.

KM4X from Kennametal represents the next generation of KM.