CREDIT: CERATIZIT
At IMTS 2024, CERATIZIT USA will feature how the future of conventional turning is changing dramatically. Instead of a fixed setting angle to the workpiece, shops are now using milling spindles to produce highly dynamic angles. The company refers to this as "High Dynamic Turning" and will present its FreeTurn tool featuring a slim, axial structure that allows users to benefit from 360 degrees of freedom in the axis without the risk of collision.
The dynamic positioning optimizes chip breakage and improves component quality by changing the position during the process. Even undercuts or contours, which currently require an additional tool, can be produced. With FreeTurn, shops can rough, finish, contour turn, face or longitudinal turn with the same tool.
With conventional turning processes, a separate tool is needed for every contour. This results in enormous tool costs and long tool changeover times. With High Dynamic Turning and the FreeTurn tool together with the high level of freedom provided by the milling spindle, the cutting edge can be changed through rotation about the tool axis, providing huge savings on tools and changeover times. Plus, machining time is reduced by up to 25%.
IMTS 2024 attendees can visit CERATIZIT at booth #431900 to find out more about FreeTurn’s advantages, which include but are not limited to:
- Machine almost all workpiece contours with one tool
- Run at 40% higher feed rates
- Reduce empty tool paths by up to 90%
- Adjust feed rates during processing
- Improve surface quality
- Reduce tool changes
- Fewer tool locations needed
Compatible CAM software for FreeTurn is available through industry partners such as EXAPT, EdgeCAM by Hexagon, GibbsCAM, Heidenhain, hyperMILL, SolidCAM, Siemens NX, and TopSolid.