Bamtri has been conducting the research for CNC system and CNC machine tools for many years. A number of 3-axis and 5-axis CNC machine tools and machining centers are designed and manufactured. Many types of machining units are provided for the first quasi-FMS Experimental Center established by BAMTRI in China. About 50 large CNC gantry type milling machines and CNC machining centers have been cooperatively produced by BAMTRI and FOREST-LINE Company of France since 1980, which are widely used in the aviation industry and other industries.

In order to improve the manufacturing technology of complex structures of aircraft to meet the design requirements of aeronautical products, CAD/CAPP/CAM integrated system and feature-oriented models can be used to accurately define the structures of CNC machining parts and to generate technical process of aeronautical parts and CNC processing program. This technology provides a solution for the production of complicated structures of aeronautical products, program design and CNC machining technology and therefore is widely used in CNC milling of Ti alloy parts and honeycomb sturctures.

This technology are directly used to machine complicated structures of various hard-to-machine materials for many types of aircrafts.

CNC system, CNC machine, FMS(Flexible Manufacturing System) and CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing System) have been developed and applied during the past several years, BAMTRI has designed and produced many kinds of multi-axis CNC milling machines and machining centers, established a first FMS experimental center in China.

Since 1980, BAMTRI has purchased the production technology for CNC milling machines from FOREST-LINE CO. in france. The cooperative products include S-240 Multiaxis Gantry Type CNC-copy Milling Machine, 3-axis and 5-axis Gantry Type CNC Milling Machine.

A dual gantry, 5-axis profiling, long-bed CNC mill/rout machine will utilize powerful, 7000 rev/min, 70HP gear-driven spindles to simultaneously machine extruded titanium structuresCincinnati Machine announces that it has received an order from RTI Claro, Montreal, Canada, for a dual gantry, 5-axis Wide-Range Profiler. The machines will utilize powerful, 7000 rev/min, 70HP gear-driven spindles to simultaneously machine titanium structures (made from extruded product). The dual gantry configuration will operate on 240ft of X-axis rail with multiple spindles delivering full 5-axis contouring capabilities.

A newly re-designed spindle support housing reduces overall moving mass and will significantly improve Z and B-axes servo response and machining dynamics.

Extensive Finite Element Modeling, a core in-house engineering area of expertise for Cincinnati Machine, was utilized in the re-design of this critical structural, moving element of the machine.

Cincinnati's Wide-Range Profiler product has field-proven, 'best-in-class', multi-spindle, heavy titanium cutting capabilities demonstrated at installations around the globe.

While this machine has dynamic stiffness optimized for aggressive high metal removal rates in titanium and other hard metal alloys, the dual range geared transmission enables very high-volume aluminum and other light alloy 5-axis machining with continuous 70HP available at spindle speeds up to 7,000 rev/min.

RTI Claro, a machining and assembly solutions provider to the aerospace market for more than four decades, chose Cincinnati Machine for its quality machines and proven experience in machining the expensive metal.

Working with parent company, RTI International Metals, a leading supplier of titanium to global aircraft manufacturers, RTI Claro will leverage its new capitol investment to cost-effectively respond to the increasing demand for titanium aircraft parts.

The first gantry is scheduled to ship from Cincinnati Machine's recently expanded manufacturing facility in April 2007.

The second gantry will ship the following July.

* About Cincinnati Machine - Cincinnati Machine designs, builds and integrates advanced manufacturing solutions for the global aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment, energy and general machining markets.

The company's broad machine tool line includes automated composites processing equipment, profilers, routers, large horizontal and vertical machining centers including 5-axis, multi-tasking and cells.

Cincinnati Machine, together with Giddings and Lewis and Cincinnati Automation and Test, comprise Cincinnati Technologies, a unit of MAG industrial automation Systems.

For more information about Cincinnati Machine, please visit www.cinmach.com * About MAG Industrial Automation Systems - MAG Industrial Automation Systems (MAG-IAS), Sterling Heights, MI, is a group of leading machine tool and systems companies serving the durable-goods industry, worldwide, with a large portfolio of highly-recognized and well-respected brands.

With manufacturing operations on five continents, MAG-IAS ranks as a leader in the global metalworking capital equipment market.

Able to control up to 5 axes and a spindle, Advantage 400 includes 32 digital inputs, 2 analog inputs, 16 digital outputs, and variety of programming features. Product also includes ability to send torque or step and direction command formats. Dual-processor control utilizes dedicated DSP based CPU to service motion control tasks, and Pentium-based PC is at heart of user interface. Unit comes with 8.4 in. color LCD and can include Ethernet and USB utilities.

Chatsworth, Ca. - Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc. has released the Advantage 400 CNC control system. Created for the machine tool builder and retrofitter who require a powerful, feature packed control, which sets up quickly and whose price does not limit performance, capability, or flexibility.

The Advantage 400 will control 5 axes, a spindle, includes 32 digital inputs, 2 analog inputs, 16 digital outputs, and all the programming features customers would expect from a high-performance control package, all in a standard configuration and at a very reasonable price. The Advantage 400 includes the ability to send torque or step and direction command formats.

The Advantage 400 is a dual-processor control utilizing a dedicated DSP based CPU to service the motion control tasks. A Pentium based PC is the heart of the user interface. The DSP motion control CPU ensures the machine is accurate at any speed. The Pentium based interface allows Delta Tau to include utilities such as Ethernet and USB at no additional cost to the user. The control comes standard with an 8.4" color LCD.

The Advantage 400 is a perfect example of how intelligent design and technology is bridging the gap between software and hardware and bringing unprecedented levels of performance and value to the shop floor.

With 4,000 rpm spindle speed, 8-spindle Model A-36PC offers 36 mm diameter capacity and 8 individual CNC cross slides. Electronic connection to each spindle is completely integrated, allowing continuous rotation of machine. Twin pick-off spindles allow machining of back side of workpiece, while modular design permits addition of up to 23 programmable axes and 6 independent spindle speeds. Separate chip and coolant system behind machine eliminates chip build-up in base.

Schutte will unveil and demonstrate their new model A-36PC machine, at IMTS, in their booth #A-8667 in the south hall. This new full CNC 8-spindle flexible production machine is completely modular in its planned construction and application intensive regard for the needs of its users, based on today's manufacturing environment dictating shorter production runs, and ever changing customer requirements. The machine can be tooled for today's specific application and manufacturing criteria, yet upgraded on the customer's floor, as those needs change. Thus realizing the minimum of start-up costs, while creating the down-stream flexibility, which is so important in creating and gaining manufacturing optimization.

A very unique technical design has been incorporated into the Schutte CMC machine's, whereby the electronic connection to each spindle has been completely integrated; meaning that unlike other machine designs available in the market of this category, there are no hard wired connection cables to drive each spindle motor. This revolutionary design means a continuous and ongoing normal rotation of the machine, vs. only being able to make a minimum complete revolution and then the requirement to "unwind" in the reverse, because of these cables and their hard connections. The Schutte CNC design has completely eliminated these hard connections and this permits the machine to continue its complete revolutions uninterrupted and without the downtime associated with the unwinding process.

ANCA has released the GX7 CNC sharpener and tool and cutter grinder. It is equally productive on single tool jobs and on a batch of tools of different types and geometry.


The GX7 is suitable for grinding a variety of tools in one set-up. Drills, step drills, end mills, burrs, profile tools, routers and special tools can be efficiently sharpened using a suite of ANCA ToolRoom software applications. All axis saddles are made from a single-piece casting for rigidity. The grinding spindle is also mounted on a single-piece casting.

The system has a polymer concrete base. All linear and rotary axes are direct driven, which increases reliability and reduces vibrations. The digital servo drives give good surface finish, high grinding speeds and accuracy.

The system has a touch screen and an integrated modem for remote diagnostics. It has an uninterrupted power supply, a USB port on the front panel for additional equipment and uses the Windows XP operating system.

A direct-driven A-axis can be used as a spindle and run at 600 rpm. This allows cylindrical grinding. Each wheel pack has its own dedicated, programmable coolant outlet. Removable coolant manifolds are used on each wheel pack for easy change over. Additional programmable coolant outlets are located on the headstock.

An optional automatic pop-up manual tailstock and a range of tool clamping solutions suits a variety of applications. An ANCA semiautomatic tool measurement system called iView is also available. It can be quickly set up inside the machine and provides outer envelope tool measurement data. The tool is measured in the same clamping as ground and measured data can be fed back into the grinding cycle for automatic compensation.

The system includes a bidirectional interface to the Zoller Genius III automatic tool gauge. The GX7 can be equipped with a 52-tool drum loader to allow hours of unmanned production. The loader uses Nikken KM collets, allowing a variety of tool shank sizes. In conjunction with the ANCA Ordermate software it also allows the mixing of different tool geometries in one batch.

A rocketing order book has prompted the installation of a Ward CNC-supplied Hartford Power Center Pro-1000 vertical machining centre at Currie Engineering of Londonderry, the world-class sub-contract machinist that provides a varied range of components to OEM customers across the industry spectrum.

According to partners John and James Currie, who run the 20-employee company, the fact that Ward CNC could provide from stock a machine of the required specification and at a cost-competitive rate – when other suppliers couldn’t - was one of the prime reasons for the investment.

"A sudden increase in orders for a range of parts – specifically, specialised hydraulic cylinders and rotating seals – demanded an immediate increase in our vertical machining capacity if we were to keep pace with the customer’s requirements for these EN8 steel and tool steel components," says James Currie.

"We needed a suitably rigid and reliable vertical machining centre to perform the various milling, boring, drilling and tapping operations – including small diameter deep hole drilling down to 300 mm.

"Ward had the 1,000 mm by 600 mm by 510 mm capacity (X,Y,Z) Power Center available ex-stock and available at a good price, so we didn’t hesitate."

The 20/24-tool open fronted Hartford Power Center Pro-1000 offers rapid traverse rates of 20 m/min (X, Y) and 16 m/min (Z), as standard (optionally 24 m/min X, Y and 20 m/min Z) and spindle speeds of 40- 6,000 revs/min/40-8,000 revs/min (geared/pulley head, respectively) from the 7.5 kW main spindle motor (optionally 10 kW).

* Currie Engineering also purchased a re-engineered large capacity (1.5 metres between centres) Binns & Berry lathe from Ward CNC at the seam time, to enhance its turning capabilities.