At Southern Manufacturing 2019, Whitehouse Machine Tools will promote the machine tool ranges it sells into the UK and Ireland under sole agency agreements with several overseas manufacturers.
Included are machining centres from Brother, Japan, as well as from Spinner and AXA, Germany, and Akari and WELE, Taiwan. Marketed also are CNC turning centres from Spinner and also from Biglia, Italy.
Demonstrated on the stand will be a Brother Speedio M140X1 5-axis, 30-taper mill-turn centre with a 2,000 rpm direct-drive C-axis table and an A-axis trunnion tiltable from +120 to -30 degree, allowing machining of features at the rear of components and facilitating loading and unloading of parts at the front of the machine.
Brother has removed every conceivable element of non-productive time. Not only are speeds fast during non-cutting motions, but they also take place simultaneously in X, Y, Z, A and C, together with tool change. The spindle motor’s rapid acc/dec and a highly responsive servo control enable a 0.2 second start / stop time. Start-up time of the turning table from zero to 2,000 rpm is less than 0.3 second.
