Taking place between 9-10 October at Seco’s Technology Centre facility in Alcester, Mills is one of over 40 Technical Partners attending Inspiration through Innovation 2018 and is a principal player in one of the innovative and challenging machining demonstrations organised for, and taking place over, the two days.
Explains Mills CNC’s technical manager, Tony Dale: “Having talked to Seco about the focus and direction of this year's event and its emphasis on machining excellence, we decided that Inspiration through Innovation 2018 would be a great venue to demonstrate the power, speed and flexibility of the new NHP 5000 machine.”
Continues Tony Dale: “We are working with a number of Technical Partners - CADCAM, workholding, metalworking fluid, cutting tool, metrology suppliers etc - to develop a machining demonstration that will, I’m confident, capture the imagination of visitors and that will highlight specific strengths and the unrivalled productivity potential of the NHP 5000.”
The demonstration focuses on the machining of a steering knuckle - a critical high precision automotive component that connects the suspension and steering elements of a car - and has involved engineers from Autodesk, Brown & Holmes, Houghton, Renishaw, Seco Tools and Mills CNC working collaboratively to design and prove out the demonstration.
