Issue 5 – Austech 2009

AUSTECH 2009

AFM is certainly looking forward to next week’s AUSTECH 20009 trade show in Melbourne.

The event is an excellent opportunity to connect with manufacturers from around the country to discuss their business needs and goals. Across four busy days, our friendly staff will be more than happy to discuss the range of productivity improving products we can supply your business today.

The AFM stand at G45 will feature products from almost all our world class partners including:

• Chucks, steady rests and driven tooling from SMW Autoblok
• The flexible and fast VIP 80 bar feeder from Iemca
• Oil mist separators from Losma for cleaner air and safer work environments
• Coolant cleaning from Alfa Laval that will save you time and money
• Tool presetting from Zoller designed to increase the life of your tools

We are pleased to announce that AFM can now supply standard and special size soft jaws to suit your workholding requirments for SMW Autoblok, Kitagawa, Howa, Strong and similar style chucks with serrated or cross tenon jaws. Contact us about how we can help you improve your productivity today.

See you at the show!

Protect your No.1 investment – your staff
LOSMA Air Filtration

Italian based Losma are a fully certified and world renowned manufacturer of the highest quality air and coolant filtration products on the market.

Fitting Losma’s patented Darwin Air Filter on your machine tools is one of the best ways of protecting the health of you and your employees.

By removing mists and vapours created from soluble or neat oil, the Darwin air filter can save you money and improve the working environment.

The Darwin Series covers throughput from 600 to 3,000 m3/hour.  They are suitable for widely differing applications, from small lathes to grinding machines or complex machining centres.

The air filters of the Darwin Series collect and coalesce the oily pollutant though centrifugal action of the rotor. The collected oil is simply sent back to the machine tool through the drainage pipe.

Compact design and flexibility ensure they can be mounted in any position. They are the only filter which can be operated in both vertical and horizontal position using a single mounting kit.

Routine maintenance is simple as every component has been designed to be easily accessible, in situ.

As your needs change so can the Darwin.  It is a modular system. There are 150 permutations. These components can be changed at any time.

The three rotor types are interchangeable to allow for different types of machine tools.

The high level of filtration guaranteed by the Darwin can be further increased by pre and post filters.

Read more information on the LOSMA range of Air & Coolant Filters here

Quick Jaw Change Chucks
SMW Autoblok Workholdings

The Quick Jaw Change chuck gives the machinist the ability to change chuck jaws in one minute or less. Changing chuck jaws quickly results in a reduction in spindle idle time and more revenue generated by the machine tool. The KNCS-N or NB can easily pay for itself in less than a year.

The advantages of the QJC chuck are as follows:

• Change jaws quickly, rapid setup
• Great variety of jaw types available
• Accuracy
• Centrifugal force compensation
• High gripping force
• High – low chucking
• Ideal for small batch production

The jaw change mechanism on the KNCS-N (NB) uses an external key inserted into the chuck body that disengages the jaw from the internal drive mechanism in the chuck, allowing the jaw to be removed from the chuck body. Read more

For more information on the SMW Workholding range click here

Keep feeding your machines
Iemca Bar Feeders

If you’re operating fast CNC production lathes, you can ill afford to have your machines sitting idle waiting for stock. With a magazine-style automatic short bar loader from Iemca, you can achieve continuous unattended operation, thus keeping down cycle times, maintaining consistent production times to help meet schedules and reducing those all important costs.

Iemca are one of the world’s leading designers and producers of automatic bar feeders for single-spindle and multi-spindle lathes.

With the widest range of products on the market, they specialise in the production of parts and materials handling equipment for loading and unloading machine tools.

Iemca’s bar feeder products range in bar capacity from:
ø0.8mm ~ ø100mm in various lengths up to 6,000mm.

Read more information on Iemca bar feeders here

Keep your tools for longer
Zoller Tool Presetters

The Smile series of presetting and measuring machines from Zoller offer an easy, quick and accurate method of measuring a variety of CNC tooling. Based on the larger Venturion range, the compact and versatile base unit and easy to use software makes the Smile especially suited for use in small to medium sized manufacturers as either a bench top device, or standalone unit with base.

• The high precision accuracy of the device offers many benefits to your manufacturing, both in terms of efficiency, production levels, and financial savings
• Featuring automatic tool cutter recognition, the Smile can measure and test all your tools regardless of whether you are using standardised cutter shapes or special stepped tools
• The QuickTouch user interface allows for operation without mouse or keyboard
• Tool management software available on the Smile series allows for measured data to be uploaded onto your machine controller directly

Read more information on tool presetters from Zoller here

Save money by saving your oil and coolant
Alfa Laval Oil and Centrifugal Separators

Keeping your machine tool coolant and oil clean is a simple yet effective way of reducing your manufacturing costs and maintaining productivity.

Using Alfa Laval’s range of centrifugal separators, you can reduce the need to replace and dispose of your machine coolant and oil, thus reducing the cost of this expensive process, further contributing to your productivity, these accessories are also designed to reduce:

• Tool wear caused by tramp oil and solid particles present in coolants
• Quality problems during later processing
• Health problems for your staff

Read more information on the Alfa Laval range here.