Titanium ADVANTiGE™ Processes
Length: 25 min Speaker: Mark Larson
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Makino’s ADVANTiGE™ titanium machining technologies include advanced processes as well as equipment, enabling Makino T4 and T2 5-axis horizontal machining centers to achieve four times faster processing and four times longer tool life than conventional machining technologies.
This presentation provides details and video demonstrations of seven specific processes Makino has developed to maximize ADVANTiGE technologies: (1) Heavy hogging in applications such as full-slot cutting; (2) 5-axis roughing to reduce setups and cycle times; (3) one-shot wall finishing with solid, rigid tooling for machining at higher speeds and greater axial depths of cut; (4) 5-axis facing to maintain controlled curvature and produce smoother surfaces; (5) 6-axis agility to reduce fixturing and tooling costs, as well as increasing accuracy; (6) 5-axis long-reach tooling to reduce the need for angle heads, reduce cycle times and save on tool costs; and (8) processes to improve tool life by as much as nine times (in finishing processes) over conventional machining.