Machine time - in search of a minimum: Practical machine concepts are very much in the running

摘要

There is always a lot of talk about new machine concepts - hexapods, tripods, linear direct drives. Yet what about actual production practice? Are production managers even interested in these new concepts? People involved in everyday production are not dreaming about new machine concepts. Everyone knows that ultra dynamic specialized machines can only be used efficiently in very specific cases, Most metalworking is still done on conventional machines. However, conventional does not necessarily have to mean outmoded machine concepts. Conventional today means high speed machining, hard machining, and complete machining. In the process, many want to go be- . yond the material (processing) limits, because steel, cast iron, non-ferrous heavy metals, and light metals dominate everyday production. And magnesium is coming increasingly into play and is a metal one naturally also wants to process. What metalworking practitioners are looking for is an all-purpose machine but with properties as similar as possible to those of a specialized machine that would fit the given application.