Mazak Sets New Standard for Motorsports Industry at Performance Racing Industry Show 2006
The 19th annual Performance Racing Industry Show (December 14-16 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida) is billed as the world's largest motorsports industry trade show. At Booth 5407, Mazak Corporation (Florence, Kentucky) will be demonstrating a new standard of manufacturing productivity and quality for the fast-growing motorsports industry by showing high-speed, full 5-axis machining on a Dodge Motorsports/Penske Jasper Engines cylinder head on Mazak's Integrex e-410HS multi-tasking machining center.
Specifically, Mazak will be demonstrating the porting of cylinder heads -- fine-tuning the interior shapes of the engine's curving channels that direct airflow to and from the cylinders - in a single setup. "Where other machines typically run this kind of work in the 60 to 80 inches-per-minute range, we programmed the machine at 120 inches per minute and ran it very successfully at 100% override," explains Jack Halenkamp, Mazak's exhibits manager. "At last year's show, people watching were amazed. Where a cylinder head can take anywhere from four to seven to hours, we were finish-machining them in just over two hours."
This is possible because Mazak's Integrex e-410HS II permits full five-axis milling. The high-speed advanced milling spindle can tilt up to 240 degrees, and the second spindle has the same C-axis rotational functions as the main spindle. Not only does this provide unsurpassed flexibility for machining complex parts, both the B and C axis can be positioned in increments of 0.0001 degree for superior accuracy and finish. For tooling, a lollipop cutter accomplishes the milling and high-tolerance finishes deep inside the curving channels.
Also addressing simultaneous five-axis machining on the Integrex e-410HS is the new Mazatrol Matrix CNC. Software and hardware advances in the Mazatrol Matrix include powerful internal computing speed to support 16 million pulse-per-revolution encoders on each linear axis for high-accuracy, sub-micron resolution in both EIA/ISO programs and Mazak's Mazatrol conversational programming. Powering these advances is a new 64-bit twin-engine CPU that produces feedrates for machining complex surfaces two times faster than the previous CNC control.
The largest machine tool builder in the world, Mazak is unsurpassed in continually providing machine-tool and production technologies that improve manufacturing processes for companies of all sizes. More information is available by visiting www.mazakusa.com.
Mazak Corporation
Contact:George Yamane
Marketing Manager
PO Box 970
Florence, Kentucky 41022-0970
(859) 342-1700
fax (859) 342-9524
website: www.mazakusa.com
G. Temple Associates
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Ray Chalmers
37735 Enterprise Court, Suite 200
Farmington Hills, MI 48331
(248) 324-9800
fax (248) 324-9801
email: r.chalmers@gtemple.com
