Pallets 5 & 6

It has been a while since I have shown our latest fixtures on our Mazak HCN5000 Palletech system. These fixtures we are machining 2 parts complete a case and cover. We have been experimenting with special tooling with great success. We machine 12 parts in each fixture with 2 operations for the case and 1 operation for the cover. When done we assembly them on our test stand all while the machine is running. We started out with a cycle time of 55 minutes and shortened it to 38 minutes. Our goal is to make all 12 parts in 30 minutes.

One of our game changing tools we use is a hollow mill that Seco help design for us. This tool alone saves 35 seconds per part. This tool has a much longer tool life. The second tool we changed is our vent holes drills. We started out with HSS taper length drill and switched them with OSG ADO drills. I have one flat edge drill to create a pilot hole and a 10 times diameter coolant thru drill to punch through the walls. These two drills removed more than 7 minutes out of the program.