CHAPTER 24

Machining and Turning Centers, Machine-Tool Structures, and Machining Economics

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Examples of Parts Machined on Machining Centers

Figure 24.1 Examples of parts that can be machined on machining centers, using various processes such as turning, facing, milling, drilling, boring, reaming, and threading. Such parts would ordinarily require a variety of machine tools. Source: Toyoda Machinery.

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Horizontal-Spindle Machining Center

Figure 24.2 A horizontal-spindle machining center, equipped with an automatic tool changes. Tool magazines can store 200 cutting tools. Source: Courtesy of Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

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Five-Axis Machining Center

Figure 24.3 Schematic illustration of a five-axis machining center. Note that in addition to the three linear movements, the pallet can be swiveled (rotated) along two axes, allowing the machining of complex shapes such as those shown in Fig. 24.1. Source: Toyoda Machinery.

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Pallets

Figure 24.4 (a) Schematic illustration of the top view of a horizontal-spindle machining center showing the pallet pool, set-up station for a pallet, pallet carrier, and an active pallet in operation (shown directly below the spindle of the machine). (b) Schematic illustration of two machining centers with a common pallet pool. Various other arrangements are possible in such systems. Source: Hitachi Seiki Co., Ltd.

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Swing-Around Tool Changer

Figure 24.5 Swing-around tool changer on a horizontal-spindle machining center. Source: Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

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Touch Probes
Figure 24.6 Touch probes used in machining centers for determining workpiece and tool positions and surfaces relative to the machine table or column. (a) Touch probe determining the X-Y (horizontal) position of a workpiece, (b) determining the height of a horizontal surface, (c) determining the planar position of the surface of a cutter (for instance, for cutter-diameter compensation), and (d) determining the length of a tool for tool-length offset. Source: Hitachi Seiki Co., Ltd.

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Vertical-Spindle Machining Center

Figure 24.7 A vertical-spindle machining center. The tool magazine is on the left of the machine. The control panel on the right can be swiveled by the operator. Source: Courtesy of Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

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CNC Turning Center

Figure 24.8 Schematic illustration of a three-turret, two-spindle computer numerical controlled turning center. Source: Hitachi Seiki Co., Ltd.

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Chip-Collecting System

Figure 24.9 Schematic illustration of a chip-collecting system in a horizontalspindle machining center. The chips that fall by gravity are collected by the two horizontal conveyors at the bottom of the troughs. Source: Okuma Machinery Works Ltd.

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Machining Outer Bearing Races on a Turning Center

Figure 24.10

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Machine-Tool Structure and Guideways

Figure 24.11 An example of a machinetool structure. The boxtype, one-piece design with internal diagonal ribs significantly improves the stiffness of the machine. Source: Okuma Machinery Works Ltd.

Figure 24.12 Steel guideways integrally-cast on top of the cast-iron bed of a machining center. Because of its higher elastic modulus, the steel provides higher stiffness than cast iron. Source: Hitachi Seiki Co., Ltd.

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Chatter

Figure 24.13 Chatter marks (right of center of photograph) on the surface of a turned part. Source: General Electric Company.

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Internal Damping of Structural Materials

Figure 24.14 The relative damping capacity of (a) gray cast iron and (b) epoxygranite composite material. The vertical scale is the amplitude of vibration and the horizontal scale is time. Source: Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

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Joints in Machine-Tool Structures

Figure 24.15 The damping of vibrations as a function of the number of components on a lathe. Joints dissipate energy; the greater the number of joints, the higher the damping capacity of the machine. Source: J. Peters.

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Machining Economics
Figure 24.16 Graphs showing (a) cost per piece and (b) time per piece in machining. Note the optimum speeds for both cost and time. The range between the two is known as the highefficiency machining range.
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