Aerospace machining centre is world first
1 min read
Moyola Precision Engineering in Castledawson, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, is the first customer in the world to take delivery of a DS Technologie ECOSPEED F equipped with both the new integral c axis and angular milling head, and it is the first machining centre to use an 'integral c axis' in combination with parallel kinematics for multi-axes machining.
This combination supports full 5-axis face machining of complex aerospace components using a single setting. ECOSPEED F's a Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic head and integrated motor spindle support machining at the rate of 8,000 cubic centimetres per minute - a claimed world record and the benchmark for machining aerospace aluminium.
Moyola expects productivity levels to increase by at least 150 per cent. Compared with the company's existing machining centres, the ECOSPEED F is capable of machining large aerospace complex components 2.5 times faster. In addition, precision and surface quality is so high that manual hand-finishing, which would normally be required, is almost completely eliminated.
The Northern Ireland-based firm evaluated several technologies in the USA, Japan, and Europe to enhance their sustainable competitiveness for a seven- to 10-year period with a further productivity increase of at least 30 per cent.