World's fastest sliding-head lathe at October Open House

“This will be the first chance to see the production version of the Citizen A32-VII in action,” said Geoff Bryant managing director. “So impressive was the prototype machine shown to visitors at the MACH 2008 exhibition in April at the NEC that six advance orders were placed on the stand at the show.” With deliveries about to commence, the machine will be set to produce sample components using its up to 27 tool capacity and sub-spindle capability. It will demonstrate high metal removal rates from its heavier construction and 40 per cent increase in spindle torque, coupled with ultra-quick 45 m/min rapid traverse rates. Also, contributing to the minimisation of non-cutting times, Citizen’s ‘Streamline Control’ software will show the benefits obtained by its ability to co-ordinate axis overlaps with direct C-axis indexing and shorter start up and switching times. In addition, in typical Citizen Machinery UK fashion established at past open houses, there will be plenty to see to provide the opportunity to upgrade productivity with another seven machines under power. These will represent the range starting at the high speed linear driven RO7, a mid-range K12 and larger capacity K16, popular L20 plus the low cost A20 – a highly productive smaller 20 mm capacity version of the A32. Two top of the range M-Series machines, an M16 and M32 will also be under power. Supporting companies at the event and showing related CNC sliding head technology products of interest to the small turned parts industry, will be Delcam with CAD to CAM, Floyd Automatic Tooling, Iemca bar feeds, Miyano Machinery UK, Renishaw and Sandvik Coromant. Citizen Machinery’s high pressure CoolBlaster system will be fitted to several machines and its UK developed CNC Wizard programming software, CNC Program Editor and wireless program transfer will be demonstrated.