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News Release from: Viking Machine Tools | Subject: VM-4VS with Acu-Rite MILLPWR CNC
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 May 2002
Accuracy and speed from CNC miller
Viking offering a 2.5-axis version of the VM-4VS with an Acu-Rite MILLPWR CNC.
With sales of over 100 machines, Viking's highly successful VM-4VS turret miller has proven its outstanding record in the field Viking is now building on this success by offering a 2.5-axis version of the VM-4VS with an Acu-Rite MILLPWR CNC for the first time
The powerful but easily understandable facilities offered by the MILLPWR unit complement the simple, straightforward operation of the VM-4VS to provide a machine that is the most accurate, fastest and easiest to use in its class.
The integration of the MILLPWR CNC into the VM-4VS-GL enhances the operation of the turret miller, enabling users to do much more with their machines at very reasonable cost.
The Acu-Rite precision glass scales in the MILLPWR unit deliver a whole raft of performance improvements, including better accuracy and repeatability, higher resolution (2m/0.0001in), faster slew speeds up to 40in/s, precision closed loop feedback, elimination of backlash compensation and proven Position-Trac technology to quickly and easily re-establish workpiece zero after power loss.
The MILLPWR unit features what is probably the industry' best 2.5-axis conversational shop floor programming, minimising learning time for users, whilst providing powerful and time saving features, such as the ability to run G-code files from CAD/CAM programs for contouring and the facility to translate DXF files from CAD drawings directly into program code.
Menu-prompted programming enables users to quickly and easily create part programs for the MILLPWR equipped VM-4VS-GL, the process being to simply follow a series of menu prompts, letting the powerful MILLPWR architecture do the rest.
As an example of this, Hard Key milling functions such as lines, arcs, rectangles and circles (etc) can be selected simply by pressing a button.
In addition, the 3D tactile feel colour keypad enables application specific functions such as adjusting feed rates on the fly and starting and stopping of the MILLPWR quickly and easily Fundamental to the simplified programming of the MILLPWR unit is a large colour, operator friendly display that enables information to be viewed instantly.
Particularly useful is the facility for intermediate-part-view graphics.
This enables machine operators to verify part programs with a zoom feature for intricate detail - both before and during machining to reduce errors and scrap.
"By launching this latest CNC version of our highly successful VM-4VS-GL turret miller we are confident of making an already run away success even better", said Viking's Steve Jones.
"In over 100 sales for the VM-4S our problem rate is less than 1%, which gives some idea of the levels of reliability users can expect from the machine.
Now, with the addition of the Acu-Rite MILLPWR unit we are extending the operating envelope of the VM-4VS, providing improved efficiency, time saving and cost reduction with a unit that is extremely simple to use yet offers all the powerful features required in modern manufacturing operations".
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