At EMO, Tornos is launching a new line of products. The MultiSwiss 6x14 machine provides a link between multispindle turning machines and sliding headstock machines. Based on the "fully integrated" concept and featuring innovative front access, this new machine is designed with three types of customer in mind: users of numerical multispindle turning machines, users of cam-operated machines, and users of single-spindle turning machines.
The MultiSwiss benefits from completely open front access, allowing the operator unrivalled working conditions since he can virtually "get inside" the machining area to work on it, and since all the peripherals are fully integrated. Swarf evacuation is also exemplary: as all the slides are "vertical", the swarf naturally "falls" directly onto the evacuator. To complete the ergonomics of the working area, the Moutier group’s engineers ensured perfect integration of all of the required peripherals right from the design stage. The MultiSwiss includes, as standard, a paper filter system combined with a superfine filter located in the oil tray. In addition to the filter and the bar feeder, the machine’s casing is designed to house the cooling device, the chip conveyor and the oil mist extraction device.
As small as a single spindle The fact that all the peripherals are fully integrated means that its footprint is reduced and the MultiSwiss can quickly find its place in the heart of any workshop. The machine takes up no more space than a single-spindle machine of equivalent capacity, equipped with a bar feeder.
Outstanding performance With a capacity of 14 mm, the machine can house up to 15 tools in main operation and 3 in secondary operation, on an independent station which can be interpolated. Each module of the machine was tested before being fitted on the machine. The new barrel locking system designed to replace the conventional Hirth gear was tested over 40 million cycles before it was awarded its validation certificate and a number of machines were sent to customers to test over several months. The machine has a thermo-regulated core allowing production to be started up quickly. The use of hydrostatic bearings ensures exceptional damping and allows excellent surface finishes to be achieved. The separation of the guides lends the machine unprecedented rigidity. Results are excellent; once the operating temperature is reached, the precision is in the region of 4-5 microns. To shorten the heating times as much as possible, the MultiSwiss features an oil circulation pump start-up option which means that all the components can be harmonised even before starting work.
The machine is on display at the Tornos Stand at EMO Hanover, Hall 17 Stand B04, and the first deliveries are scheduled to start in October of this year. You can still go and discover the machine there.
There is also an online presentation here.
www.tornos.com [email protected]
Cheers and have a safe trip back from EMO.
Pierre-Yves Kohler
PS: Sorry for those we were unable to see at EMO…the show is so big and exciting that we were unable to visit every company we wanted to.
PS2: We discovered a lot of news at this year’s EMO and the results for companies seem quite good... stay tuned!
