We have this old turning center at work. It's completely hydraulically driven and controlled.
It's Japanese built and the company is called Fuji but that's all I can find on it. There's no documentation on it. My former PM hired a bunch of handymen paint the machines in the plant and the goobers often painted over plaques or removed some and never reinstalled them after painting.
All this machine does is face, face groove (for a tenon), and chamfer on both sides of the part with each process happening simultaneously. It's used for turning electric motor frame assemblies to keep the endbells concentric to the stator axis. Probably the most reliable machine we have.
It's really a great machine for high production of a single model but changing over to do different models is a PITA. There isn't really a certain way to adjust and fine tune. Fine tuning literally takes the "love tap" approach. A changeover can take up to an hour at times but compared to the CNC machines that does the same thing, this machine has a CT of no more than 2 minutes versus a single turret CNC lathe taking almost 20 minutes (takes so long due to machine restrictions and part sizes. It's really funky, trust me). But, the CNC has the advantage to model changeover just by a new program.
Wondering if there are moderns machines like this or know of a company that makes something more modern? Figure the same principle but CNC servo driven which can aid it quicker model changovers.
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It's Japanese built and the company is called Fuji but that's all I can find on it. There's no documentation on it. My former PM hired a bunch of handymen paint the machines in the plant and the goobers often painted over plaques or removed some and never reinstalled them after painting.
All this machine does is face, face groove (for a tenon), and chamfer on both sides of the part with each process happening simultaneously. It's used for turning electric motor frame assemblies to keep the endbells concentric to the stator axis. Probably the most reliable machine we have.
It's really a great machine for high production of a single model but changing over to do different models is a PITA. There isn't really a certain way to adjust and fine tune. Fine tuning literally takes the "love tap" approach. A changeover can take up to an hour at times but compared to the CNC machines that does the same thing, this machine has a CT of no more than 2 minutes versus a single turret CNC lathe taking almost 20 minutes (takes so long due to machine restrictions and part sizes. It's really funky, trust me). But, the CNC has the advantage to model changeover just by a new program.
Wondering if there are moderns machines like this or know of a company that makes something more modern? Figure the same principle but CNC servo driven which can aid it quicker model changovers.
