Vertical Drill Center with Rotating Automatic Pallet Changer (Now developed and can drastically shorten the cycle time for drilling the building materials)

May 13, 2015

FMC

Fuji Seiki, a group company of Toshiba Machine, has developed and started marketing the "FMC-6V-S" Vertical Drill Center with Rotating Automatic Pallet Changer on the basis of the concept "Customer Satisfactory Highly Efficient and Productive Machine".

This machine can perform, with high efficiency, the large diameter drilling and tapping of materials having demand with respect to the building materials and energy. The market of the machine is the domestic infrastructure development for the Tokyo Olympics and the volume zone of emerging countries represented by China.

Main Features

  • Space saving
    The conventional automatic pallet changer required the space for 2 pallets because the changing is performed on the two-dimensional plane. However, with the new method the installation can be done in the space for only 1 pallet, realizing a space saving.

  • Shortened pallet change time
    Due to the rotation method, pallet travel distance has reduced to shorten the change time by about 20 % than the conventional method. (Comparison between ours)

  • Environmental consideration
    By rotating the pallet, it becomes possible to recover the attached chips to the conveyer installed under the machine. Moreover, considering the environment, we can provide the Chip Crusher FC-16/24S (option) that can reduce the volume of chips if a combined operation is arranged.

Annual shipments of 5 units are scheduled and the machine will be exhibited for the first time at the Toshiba Machine Group Solution Fair 2015 to be held from Thursday, May 21 to Saturday, May 23.

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