Okuma’s MU-6300V 5-Axis Machining Center wins MM-Award at AMB 2014
Okuma’s UNIVERSAL CENTER MU-6300V 5-axis machining center has won the MM-Award in the lathe & machining center category at AMB 2014. The MM-Awards are given by Maschinen Markt (MM), a highly-respected manufacturing industry journal centered in Germany, to outstanding and innovative products and new technologies in various fields. This is the fourth time Okuma has won this award, following 2010 for Machining Navi, 2011 for the PREX motor, and 2013 for the 5-Axis Auto Tuning System.
The MU-6300V 5-axis vertical machining center achieves high efficiency and high productivity in 5-axis, multi-sided machining. This CNC vertical machining center has a highly rigid and accurate double column structure and low center of gravity in workpiece movement (trunnion table) that enable both heavy duty cutting and high speed finishing. The high speed, high accuracy trunnion table means fast, accurate positioning for simultaneous 5-axis cutting.
The MU-6300V can easily be adapted for use with APC, multiple ATC, automation or FMS without compromising operability because this expansion takes place at the back of the machine. Built on Okuma’s Thermo-Friendly structure, this machine will perform consistently from the first part to the last, regardless of warmup time or ambient temperature. The MU-6300V was honored in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun’s (Business & Technology Daily News) 55th (2012) Best 10 New Product Awards.
Its features include:
Excellent operability, working table X axis travel type structure
Good accessibility to machining point
Large machining travel with respect to applicable maximum diameter of workpieces
From heavy-duty cutting to high speed finishing
Highly rigid and accurate double column structure
Low center of gravity workpiece movement (trunnion table)
Specifications expandability
Easily expansion to APC, multiple ATC, and no change of operability since they are mounted at the back of machine.
Automation, expansion to FMS can be easily done
Higher accuracies in 5-axis machining
5-axis machining accuracy is greatly affected by misalignment and other “geometric errors” on the rotary axis. The 5-Axis Auto Tuning System measures geometric error using a touch probe and datum sphere, and performs compensation using measurement results to tune the movement accuracy on 5-axis machines. In this way 5-axis machining accuracy on a higher level is achieved.
Quick and easy tuning by anyone
Previously, manual measurements of the indexing center were bothersome and time-consuming, but with the 5-Axis Auto Tuning System the measurements are made automatically by the machine. Measurements can therefore be done with stable accuracy in a short time by anyone. In addition, the results of tuning are applied regardless of whether the operation in auto, manual, or MDI and whether Tool Center Point Control is on or off. Setup and machining can therefore be done with the same.
