When bidding large titanium jobs with a lot of stock removal, you'd better get everything right, from the bidding numbers to the actual machining rates. Otherwise you may either lose the bid or end up waving goodbye to a bundle of bucks when the parts actually run. TEM Inc., a progressive 40-man shop in Buxton, ME, sure has gotten it right with a fleet of 34 light-duty CNC mills running 16/5 machining titanium. TEM rough mills an airframe forging literally five times faster than is possible with conventional cutters - on a light-frame CNC with a 20-hp (14.9-kW) spindle. The key is high-feed milling with a 3" (76-mm) Hi-Quad-F mill from Ingersoll Cutting Tools (Rockford, IL), featuring an improved PVD surface coating on the inserts. TEM completes the parts in just five hours, compared with 26 hours with conventional mills or 10 hours with competing high-feed cutters.
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机译：当投标具有大量缺铁的大型钛工作时，您最好使一切都正确，从投标数字到实际加工速度。否则，您可能会失去竞标，或者在零件实际运行时最终告别一捆钱。 TEM Inc.是一家位于密歇根州巴克斯顿的拥有40名员工的先进加工车间，它肯定拥有34个运行16/5加工钛的轻型CNC铣床车队。 TEM粗磨机的机身锻造速度实际上是传统铣刀的五倍-在具有20马力（14.9千瓦）主轴的轻型CNC机床上。关键在于使用Ingersoll切削工具公司（伊利诺伊州罗克福德）的3英寸（76毫米）Hi-Quad-F铣床进行高进给铣削，在刀片上采用改进的PVD表面涂层。TEM仅需五个小时即可完成零件加工，相比之下，传统磨机为26个小时，而竞争对手的高进给铣刀为10个小时。
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