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News Release from: IEMCA Division, Igmi SpA | Subject: Lathes
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2001
Index chooses Iemca SIR feeder
Iemca has developed a special version of the SIR feeder for the MS32 lathe. The success of this innovation was recently confirmed by the delivery of the 100th SIR feeder.
Employing 2,300 personnel around the world, with production sites in Germany and Brazil, and a turnover of 410 million dollars in 1999, Index Werke is one of the world's leading lathe manufacturers Index has had a partnership of collaboration with Iemca for years
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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To satisfy the specific requirements of Index products, Iemca has developed a special version of the SIR feeder for the MS32 lathe.
The success of this innovation was recently confirmed by the delivery of the 100th SIR feeder.
"There were three main reasons that led us to choose the SIR," explains Andreas Fried, Index Marketing Manager.
"First of all, the SIR recovers the remnant and unloads it into the rear section of the feeder.
In case of standard barfeeding with loaders attached, remnants normally have to be expelled from the lathe machining area through a separate device." The MS32, the only lathe in the world to be equipped with independent spindle motors, reaches extremely high spindle speeds (6300 rpm).
"This feature," continues Fried "combined with the numerically-controlled slides, is the main technical characteristic of this model.
A retrofitting or conventional feeder would limit the efficiency of the lathe.
The Iemca feeder actually guides both the bar and the bar pusher.
And if you choose the guide channel immediately below that of the bar pusher, the feeder automatically adjusts to guide pusher and bar at the same time." This type of variable-diameter guiding system, patented exclusively by IEMCA, is unique in the industry.
As Andreas Fried further explains, "unlike other feeder types, the SIR guide channels can be quickly retooled, so processing bars of different diameters is not a problem.
This feature perfectly responds to the current market trend towards increasingly small production lots.
People now come to expect much quicker retooling operations with their lathes and feeders.
Iemca has effectively solved this problem, but above all those of the end user.".
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