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Citation
(1999), "New robotic machining centre", Industrial Robot, Vol. 26 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.1999.04926bad.007
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
New robotic machining centre
New robotic machining centre
Keywords Neos Robotics, Robotics, Robots
To compete with conventional machining centres as well as the much vaunted hexapods, the Swedish manufacturer, Neos, has introduced a new, larger version of its established Tricept robot. It is designed specifically as a heavy duty, 5-axis CNC machining centre with high precision assembly capabilities (see Plate 6).
The machine is available in the UK through Bauromat in Pershore, which has been appointed a business development centre responsible for appointing and working with distributors, integrators and OEMs to develop applications in the fields of machine tools, laser and friction welding, laser and water jet cutting, automatic assembly and transfer lines, wood machining, automotive manufacture and aerospace.
Called Tricept 805, the machine is twice the size of the first model, Tricept 600, which will continue to be sold for light machining, profiling, and pressworking. The new machine is also 10 times more accurate, with a positioning tolerance of 0.01 mm, and is over twice as fast with feed rates up to 60 m/min and acceleration in excess of 2g. Control is by the PentiumPro 233 MHz-based Sinumerik 840D system and the digital drives are also from Siemens.
Automotive, aerospace and turbine manufacturers as well as toolmakers are likely to be particularly interested in the machining centre. Indeed, two pre-production machines have already been sold, one to Boeing in the USA for drilling holes in aircraft floor beams and the other to Preston Engineering, Australia, for heavy milling of truck components. In addition to cutting metal, Tricept is equally suited to machining plastic, composite, foam and wood.
Plate 6 The new Neos Tricept 805 from Bauromat combines the rigidity of a bed-type machining centre with the flexibility of a robot to provide heavy, five-sided machining in asingle clamping
Three linear servo actuators are each supported at the upper end by a universal joint and by a ball joint lower down where the actuators meets the rigid central beam. They combine with a 3-axis wrist carrying a 45 kW, 24,000 rpm spindle to provide five degrees of freedom for five-sided machining of workpieces within a working envelope of 2,000 mm by 1,800 mm by 800 mm. An automatic toolchanger for twelve HSK 32 tools is available.
Contact: Gordon, Biggs, Bauromat (UK) Ltd, Unit 27, Aintree Road, Keytec 7 Business Park, Wyre Piddle, Pershore, Worcestershire, WS10 2JN. Tel: +44 (0)1905 772701; Fax: +44 (0)1905 778362.