Make a note in your diary to visit REM Systems, Hall 5, Stand 5081 This year the company has some brand new workholding and automation products from Erowa that look set to offer increased efficiency and productivity to the machine shops of the UK.
Erowa’s mineral cast tombstone cube combined with the company’s ingenious MTS (Modular Tooling System)
zero-point workholding system results in a high efficiency fixturing system. It maximises the working area and allows the operator to setup the workholding while the machine is in operation. The tombstone and finished machined parts are exchanged very quickly for the freshly loaded one, keeping the spindle downtime to a minimum. The MTS system ensures precise positioning and stability even with heavy machining operations.
Made of quartz sand, sand, rock flour and epoxy resin, the new mineral tombstone offers low weight with a lower density than aluminium, combined with a high degree of vibration damping that is up to 10 times better than cast iron and a low degree of thermal conductivity, making it an ideal base for precise workholding.
Every successful product has the potential for improvement, and Erowa’s MTS zero point clamping system is a perfect example. Originally launched in 2001 and supplemented with the advanced MTS+ version in 2008. At MACH 2016 REM Systems will launch Erowa MTS 2.0 that combines the advantages of the two previous versions in one single product: 60 per cent more clamping power with a reduced opening pressure.
