By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: As a part of the ongoing drive for modernization and capacity augmentation in BHEL Bhopal unit, recently a new CNC Turn Mill Center was inaugurated in BLOCK-2 by R K Singh, Executive Director.
The machine has multi-skilling capability and can do Turning Operations, Milling Operations, Drilling Operations and Boring Operations on cylindrical jobs. The 5 axis advanced machine has got longitudinal axis, cross travel axis, perpendicular to cross travel axis, swiveling axis and spindle indexing.
The machine can perform multiple operations and it has automatic job measuring system. A job of 1 Meter diameter, 6 Meter length and weight of 8 tonnes can be done on this machine. The machine has got massive spindle power of 100 Kw and shall be utilized for manufacturing of shafts of electrical motors.
With this machine becoming operational, the productivity of machining operation of shaft shall increase four folds and the shafts taking approximately 80 hours can be manufactured in less than 16 hours. This becomes possible by using multiple tooling and multiple axis. There is 60 position automatic Tool Changer for this.
The machine has been selected after searching best suitable machine tools available in the global market for such operations. It is also possible to eliminate few subsequent operations and thus overall productivity shall increase. The machine has been procured from M/s Weingartener, Austria.
R.Krishnan, General Manager(EM), S.R Prasad AGM (EMM) and other senior executives were also present on this occasion. ([email protected])