Whitehouse launches Brother Speedio S1000X1
Brother has launched a model in its Speedio range of low inertia machining centres that is distinguished by its X-axis travel of 1,000 mm. The 30-taper S1000X1 is available in the UK from agent, Whitehouse Machine Tools.
Intended to appeal to automotive component manufacturers and others that need to machine larger components, it also allows a greater number of smaller components to be set for processing in one cycle.
Smaller models in the Speedio range have 300, 500 or 700 mm movements in X and 400 mm in Y, but in the latest machine, the Y-axis is increased to 500 mm. All have a 300 mm Z-axis travel.
Rapid traverse in X and Y is 50 m/min and even faster in Z at 56 m/min. Cutting feed in all axes is 3 m/min. Tool-to-tool change is under one second, giving a chip-to-chip time of 1.4 seconds.
