The new Recomatic compact finishing center reduces the gap between grinding or milling machining centers and finishing centers and brings more machining possibilities and more flexibility to its users. In expanding the scope of a finishing machine, Recomatic offers the result of nearly three years of work to the market. Meeting with Mr. Rérat, technical director.
At the EPHJ show, many people were impressed by the compactness of the machine as well as by its capacities.
Equipped with a 12 positions tools changer, an integrated 4 positions grinding wheels sharpening system and two swiveling abrasive tape systems, this new finishing centre aims to complete complex parts in one clamping. With a philosophy close to the one of a milling centre, this new machine has many assets to guarantee quality of produced parts in one clamping with short cycle times. It ensures optimized parts, grinding wheels and chips managements.
Advanced features With its synchronous motorspindle working up to 12’000 min-1, the CT500 centre combines very short time from chip to chip thanks to the dynamics of its spindle technology. This technology also enables better management of speeds, feed rates and torque to ensure perfect machining. The Yerly part clamping system is positioned in zero reference with an accuracy of 2 microns and accepts different chucks for simple and quick changeovers. The integrated system to sharpen grinding wheels includes up to four pre-set tools to rapid change. Using "simple" inserts tools, this system is very flexible. Machining with strips of paper also shows an important innovation since the bands can be swiveled at 90 ° to allow optimal finishing senses.
The possible machining operations
- 3D measure
- Grinding between horns
- Shape grinding
- Angle grinding
- 5 axes grinding
- Profiles grinding
- Drilling and engraving
- Milling
- Sand paper machining
First deliveries Presented as world premiere in Switzerland at the EPHJ show, the CT500 centre is available for sale from this fall and the first deliveries are scheduled for early 2012. Mr. Rérat says: "The machine created a high level of interest, especially in watchmaking, jewellery, telephony, and medical. Our production capacity currently allows us quite short deadlines, but we rely greatly on delivery of components". For this reason, deliveries of the first machines still available for sale this year will probably take place early 2012
Recomatic SA Rue des Marronniers 1G Case postale 17 2905 Courtedoux Switzerland Tel + 41 32 465 70 10 Fax + 41 32 466 43 51 [email protected] www.recomatic.ch
We will go into deeper details of this new way to work and finish parts in our next issue of Eurotec, don’t miss it! Meanwhile you can contact the company at the address here above. Seems that there won’t be enough machines to cope with demands…
