MAG Premiers SPECHT® for the component market at IMTEX
MAG IAS GmbH is a leading manufacturing technology group for machining tasks in milling and turning for turnkey manufacturing systems and machines with customer-specific application technology is highlighting SPECHT®, ideal for component manufacturers. Talking about the IMTEX showcase Shashank M.P. Deputy General Manager – MAG India IAS Pvt. Ltd. says, “Innovation has been our tradition at MAG and we are using the IMTEX as a platform to introduce all our latest developments to the Indian customers and market. We have been noticing a paradigm shift in the thinking of our customers to look for high technology solutions which also provide highest levels of flexibility, efficiency and speed leading to reduction of costs of production.”
The SPECHT® family is renowned for its use in serial production, where durability, precision and productivity are required at the highest level. MAG presents its dual spindle machining center SPECHT® 500 DUO+ with pallet changer as a world premiere. The widely-known top performance of the machine in system use will now be available to component manufacturers in a single machine as well.
This range of products already sets itself apart from competitors’ machines in the configuration of axes and thus provides the essential advantages for robustness and production quality. The integration of the motor spindle into the X- and Y-axes and their connection to a frame stand offers maximum rigidity of the machine composition in all machining positions compared to the traveling-column type. Both long boring bars for crankshaft and camshaft boring and long boring tools for oil duct machining will be necessary for the production of automotive components like cylinder crankcases and cylinder heads.
The necessary Z-stroke comes from moving the workpiece. Contrary to a Z-axis arrangement with the spindle as quill or cantilever slide, the spindle of the SPECHT® remains in the position of maximum stiffness. This so-called “jig boring machine principle” is the key to success for the universal utilization in all processes at the highest level of machining quality.
The arrangement of drive components, measurement systems, guides and power supplies outside of the machine workspace, behind the vertical cover, ensures long durability of these quality-defining components. Wet as well as dry machining with or without minimum quantity lubrication is possible thanks to the optimum chip flow into the machine bed. MAG is the sole manufacturer offering compensation in all axes for the dual spindle machines, which allows the operator to independently adjust the left and the right spindle to the particular work piece. In dry machining, thermal influences from the surroundings and workpiece temperature can be automatically compensated at any time.
