ATC type honing head
(Automatic Tool Change)
Standardi-zation
Invest-ment cut
I couldn't believe that honing can be done on a machining center!
- Reduces capital investment and supporting high-mix multi-product production
- Honing heads that can be used on general-purpose machines
Automatic Tool Change (ATC) available
Split structure allows head replacement
Standardi-zation
Invest-ment cut
Amazing facts!
── Introducing ideas and technologies ──
The ATC honing head enables honing processing on a machining center that has an operating shaft, and various processes such as honing and drilling can be integrated in a single unit of equipment.
For example, in the bore hole machining of a block, the same equipment can be used for boring and honing in the previous process, eliminating the need to install new equipment and contributing to “investment reduction”.
Also, ATC can easily handle workpieces with different machining diameters, enabling “high-mix multi-product” production.
This is the point!
Honing function built into the unit
Excellent!
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Complete machining of block bore holes with one machining center
Excellent!
Conventional process
New process
Reduce investment by reducing the number of equipment
Good!
Equipment used
ENSHU BHVL dedicated vertical machining center with honing function
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Various workpiece diameters can be processed by changing the head part
Excellent!
Development / product concept
“Current status and challenges”
- Due to product functionality, honing the bore hole in a block requires strict accuracy in diameter dimension, coaxiality, and roundness. Therefore, it is necessary to measure the diameter of the workpiece and expand the whetstone for machining, and it is common to use a honing machine with operating shaft.
- However, the introduction of a honing machine requires a large investment in equipment and floor space.
“Development points”
- The ATC type honing head has realized honing processing on a machining center by applying the technology cultivated in the honing head for conventional honing machines and by stabilizing the rotation axis in the internal mechanism.
- In block bore hole machining, the same equipment can be used for boring and honing in the previous process, eliminating the need to install a honing machine and contributing to “investment reduction”.