Manufacturing Machinery World July 2017

new produCtS – new produCtS – new produCtS
CnC gear
Cutting added
2D CNC Machinery has added S&T
Dynamics competitively priced range of high
production gear cutting machinery and
related automation equipment to its portfolio
of metal cutting CNC machining centres, cell
and system technology.
Said Director David Holden: “The S&T
Dynamics agency is an important addition to
2D CNC’s portfolio of high quality and
specialist CNC process equipment and like
the existing product ranges we represent, has
very strong links to leading manufacturing
enterprises around the world.”
S&T Dynamics, previously trading as
Tongil Heavy Industries Co., until 2005 is a
leading manufacturer of automotive and
military powertrain, axles and transmissions
that include gearboxes for helicopters, and
wind-power applications, dual-clutch
transmissions and hybrid power trains. It
also supplies both civil and military
aerospace, medical and general sectors such
as motorsport and has been listed on the
Korean stock market since 1976. It has a
turnover of $517 million and employs 1,200
people of which almost a third of the office
based workforce are engineers.
As the company is a precision gear
manufacturer it has developed and builds its
own gear cutting machine tools which is a
sub-division of its larger global CNC
machine tool build operations that include its
own castings, production and build facilities.
Machines can be supplied as complete turn-
Diamond-tipped Supermini and Mini tools
with internal cooling directly to the cutting
edge are the latest additions to the products
Horn offers for boring, profiling and
grooving.
The new ranges of insert tooling are well
suited to machining aluminium, sintered
carbide, ceramics and plastics. The tools are
also designed for tackling non-ferrous
materials that are either very abrasive due to
their high silicon content or have a tendency
to exhibit chipping problems and form builtup
edges.
Supermini tools with CVD-D or PCD
cutting edges are available in diameters from
1.5 mm and with three different geometries
to suit the application. H0 geometry with a
rake angle of zero degrees is for machining
key packages including production of
crowned gears, tapered gears, skiving and
deburring. In addition, associated
automation can include ring loaders,
stockers, conveyors and robotic loading.
The gear cutting machines include
hobbing, shaping and shaving processes plus
a range of gear chamfering and deburring
equipment. Initially 2D CNC will be
marketing and supporting the high speed
hobbing machine range. These machines
start at the H80 which has a maximum
capacity of 80 mm, module M2.5 with a high
speed (3,000 revs/min) zero backlash 7.5 kW
hob spindle to the H500 with a capacity of
500 mm. The H500 has a workpiece module
M12 and a 25.5 kW spindle.
The range of machines feature zerobacklash,
high rigidity torque motors for the
table rather than the more traditional wormdrive
system. Each machine has control
options of Siemens 828D or Fanuc 18iMB.
tel: 0844 8718584
email: d.holden@2dcnc.co.uk
web: www.2dcnc.co.uk
new diamond-tipped boring tool
hard, brittle materials such as carbides, presintered
ceramic materials, graphite and
short-chipping brass.
H5 geometry with a rake angle of 5
degrees is used to machine abrasive and soft
materials, including aluminium alloys with a
high silicon content, fibre-reinforced plastics
and other plastics with abrasive content.
Diamond is also used successfully as a
cutting material without chipping problems
when working with precious metals and
non-ferrous heavy metals such as platinum,
iridium, gold, tantalum and titanium, as well
as sintered metals like tungsten copper.
The specially developed, active HF chip
breaker geometry solves virtually all
machining problems caused by uncontrolled,
stringy swarf. It is intended for use on longchipping,
non-ferrous metals such as all
wrought aluminium alloys, and also copper
and its alloys such as bronze and both leadfree
and low-lead (long-chipping) brass.
tel: 01425 481880
email: mikegreen@phorn.co.uk
web: www.phorn.co.uk
bYStroniC app
optimiSeS SHeet
metalworKing
proCeSSeS
Swiss sheet metalworking machinery
manufacturer, Bystronic, has introduced a
new app that monitors in real time all
processes taking place within its laser cutting
machines, press brakes and water jet cutting
machines. Called ByCockpit, the software fits
neatly with the digital networking
requirements of Industry 4.0. It evaluates the
collected data and generates status reports,
allowing factory output to be optimised.
During its development, Bystronic’s IT
specialists asked a number of companies how
they retrieve information from their sheet
metalworking machines to analyse and
improve their production. Most said that
extracting data and subsequently translating
it into usable information is very time
consuming. Often, results were only
available infrequently, for example at the end
of the month or even once per quarter,
rendering the information virtually useless
for process optimisation.
Running on a laptop, smartphone or
tablet, ByCockpit generates reports while the
machines are producing parts, providing
immediate feedback so that action can be
taken, if necessary. One report is the
‘sunburst’ view, which displays the status of
the factory at a glance. Green bars indicate
machines that are currently in operation,
while a red bar signifies idle time. A blue bar
denotes machines that are connected to an
assembly line.
All Bystronic’s latest-generation machines
are ready to be connected to ByCockpit. A
connectivity kit is installed as a gateway to
each machine, which also acts as a firewall.
Via this connection, machine data is
collected, encrypted and sent to a cloud
server. The highest standards of security
ensure that no conclusions can be drawn in
the cloud about a user’s data. It is analysed
and processed so that it can be visualised
only in the customer’s ByCockpit-enabled
devices.
tel: +44(0)844 8485850
email: david.larcombe@bystronic.com
web: www.bystronic.com
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