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Press Release - Clamping Technology - Archive 2008
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03.12.2008
SCHUNK precision steady rests honored
Appealing design and formidable on the inside: An jury with international members has given the ZENTRICO THL plus precision steady rests from toolholding and workholding specialists SCHUNK in Mengen, Germany the iF product design award 2009. The outside world already acknowledges that the latest SCHUNK steady rest generation sets new standards when it comes to lifespan, accuracy, functional safety and performance. In their daily use in turning applications, these self-centering, precision steady rests prevent tools from being damaged, ensure brilliant surfaces and minimize mistakes in geometry when shafts are long.
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03.12.2008
Quick jaw change brings flexibility and substantial savings
The most recent innovation from SCHUNK is a quick-change jaw system for
TANDEM clamping blocks, which can be used to reduce the time for jaw changes from around 5 minutes in the past to just 10 seconds. To achieve this, SCHUNK fits a one-piece base jaw with a high-precision quick-change system, which allows the jaw to be completely changed without the need for tools.
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04.11.2008
Flat power pack for precise serial production
Highest clamping force with greatest jaw stroke and lowest height at the same time. With the power chuck SCHUNK ROTA NCO, this combination, which so far is unique on the lathe chuck market, “only” ensures more space in the engine room, short cycle times, and high versatility. In times of rapidly rising electricity prices, the powerful lathe chuck from Mengen now proves itself to be also very energy efficient. Thanks to an integrated media feed-through, the precision lathe chuck also allows a choice of central lubrication, central coolant supply, or air control. The continuous high precision even at large diameters testifies to the high quality of the inner workings.
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15.10.2008
Third German Machine Construction Summit in Berlin
German Machine Tool Industry Award awarded to Heinz-Dieter Schunk
Heinz-Dieter Schunk, managing partner of SCHUNK clamping and gripping technology specialists, based in Lauffen am Neckar, was awarded the German Machine Tool Industry Award on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. During the Third German Machine Construction Summit in Berlin, the independent jury of experts from economics and science recognized the Swabian businessman's life achievements. Under his management, a small garage business has been transformed into an innovation hotbed for clamping technology and automation with 1,800 employees. SCHUNK's precision products are used in numerous sectors to increase quality and efficiency.
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14.10.2008
Hydraulic Expansion Tools with Axial Retraction:
Cutting time and costs in high precision workpiece clamping
Maximum precision at minimum cost – competing on a global stage involves constantly re-examining your workpiece clamping concept. Hydraulic expansion tools with axial retraction from the clamping and gripping technology specialist SCHUNK, based in Lauffen, Germany, are an effective solution for minimising set-up times whilst providing maximum precision. They also often enable further cost savings. The chucks or arbors centre and clamp the workpieces in the minimum of time, with an overall repetition accuracy of less than 0.006 mm, via three interfaces. In other words, an average of less than 0.002 mm per interface from machine to basic chuck, from basic chuck to expansion arbor and from expansion arbor to workpiece. Additionally, the axial retraction designed by SCHUNK guarantees a completely flat work surface by drawing the workpiece axially to the flat surface. This prevents even the slightest drunkenness and provides extremely stable machining.
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26.09.2008
Versatile lathe chuck ensures high efficiency during turning
An all-rounder for high-precision clamping of workpieces on the lathe is the 3-jaw power chuck ROTA NCD by SCHUNK. Right now, all sizes of the all-rounder are being continuously improved with regard to rigidity. In this way, the universal lathe chuck expands its high performance even further. Especially users who process different workpieces on a single machine can significantly reduce set-up times and costs with this high-performance chuck.
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09.09.2008
New range of steady rests with extensive standard equipment
The new ZENTRICO THL plus range of steady rest products from SCHUNK, the clamping technology specialist based in Mengen, is robust and high precision with a long lifetime. The self-centering precision steady rests support long slender turned parts, thereby reducing the wear of the inserted tools as well as ensuring brilliant surface finishes and minimizing geometry errors on long shafts. The latest generation offers roll rinsing and improved sealing of the rollers against contamination.
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09.09.2008
Hybrid Chuck Boosts Productivity for Grinding and Turning
Users benefit from the synergy of centring chuck and magnetic clamping technology
Two technologies in one: the ROTA NCM from SCHUNK combines a classic centring chuck and a round magnetic clamping plate. This synthesis has a tangible result: ROTA NCM reduces set-up times for pneumatically actuated grinding and turning machines by up to 80 percent, thereby providing a clearly perceptible productivity boost. But that is not everything. Due to the large-surface clamping, the workpieces retain their shape. Machining can take place from as many as three sides, completely free of vibration and deformation.
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09.09.2008
Twice the safety for turning
The protection of the operator and the machine is paramount during turning. SCHUNK, the power chuck specialist from Menger now presents the electro-pneumatic ELKE 24/2 control unit with convenient safety module with the option of one or two pneumatic power chucks, each controlled in five operating positions where their function can be reliably monitored at the same time.
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09.09.2008
The UNILOCK NSA series ensures process reliability and
high-precision quick change clamping in automated production
Automated machine loading offers significant rationalisation potential in metal-cutting production. The clamping devices are subject to an extensive range of requirements: They should position and fix the workpieces in place with high precision in a matter of seconds, guaranteeing absolutely secure clamping during machining with a compact construction that takes up as little machine space as possible. At the same time they should simplify workpiece changing and, above all, provide a reliable, clean and chip-free support surface. This is an essential prerequisite for round-the-clock production in automated operation. The NSA series of the SCHUNK UNILOCK quick-change pallet system combines all these requirements, creating optimum conditions for process reliability and automated workpiece change. All three modules of the series are designed to meet demanding continuous operation and guarantee high-precision repeat accuracy < 0.005 mm.
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09.09.2008
Magnetic clamping technology conceals a multitude of talents
Hardly any other technology has such versatile capabilities that have remained hidden to the user for as long as those of magnetic clamping technology. Only in grinding has a real standard been established to date in the form of parallel pole plates. Just recently a breakthrough has been made in the more than 30-year old magnetic clamping technique which is playing an ever increasing role in shipbuilding, the manufacture of press and wood processing machines, the machining of enormous, high- precision bearing rings for wind power plants, and in the robot-supported handling of ferromagnetic workpieces or in the lifting of steel plates, pipes, cable drums or roller bearing rings. The technology leads the way in meeting the constantly growing requirements for precision on the one hand and undiminished cost pressure on the other.
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09.09.2008
TENDO-ES: The Powerhouse of Hydraulic Expansion Toolholders
The extremely short hydraulic expansion holder TENDO-ES from SCHUNK is now available as standard for the BT 40 interface. With the TENDO-ES, the tool is clamped directly in the mounting taper. This way, the tool shank is supported via the spindle. With an L1 dimension of 26,0 mm, the TENDO-ES is extremely short. The result is the highest holding forces for transferable high torques and a great deal of additional space in the machining area.
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09.09.2008
Interfaces for the Timepiece Industry and Precision Mechanics
High precision micromachining with TRIBOS polygonal clamping technology
Micromachining standards are becoming more demanding. This is why the clamping and gripping technology specialist SCHUNK, based in Lauffen, Germany, is now offering its two precision toolholders TRIBOS-RM and TRIBOS-Mini for use with the ISO 10 and HSK E 25 to 40 interfaces, commonly used in the timepiece and jewellery industry, as well as in precision mechanics. This means that, in the future, it will be possible to clamp tools with a shank diameter from 0.3 mm with excellent true running of less than 0.003 mm. Users will benefit from maximum precision, brilliant surfaces and long tool lives.
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09.09.2008
Efficient Production: One Chuck Jaw for Just About Everything
If you work with small and medium-sized batches, SCHUNK's universal top jaw SZKU can make your production significantly more efficient whilst substantially reducing the cost of workpiece clamping. This all-rounder from the clamping and gripping technology specialists in Lauffen, Germany, combines the major benefits of two jaw types: the SZKU is as versatile as a stepped jaw whilst transmitting high torques like a claw jaw.
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25.07.2008
SCHUNK UNILOCK quick-change pallet system offers significant savings potential in the welding shop
The SCHUNK UNILOCK quick-change pallet system can be reliably installed on welding fixtures without an additional ground plane. This was proved in intensive testing carried out by TÜV Süd on behalf of the toolholding and workholding specialist SCHUNK based in Lauffen. Under the harshest conditions the inspectors established that the contact points between the test set-up and quick-change pallet system as well as the clamping points between clamping slide and clamping bolt withstand the welding process. By passing this test the SCHUNK UNILOCK quick-change pallet system can also significantly reduce the set-up costs in the welding shop both now and in the future.
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17.01.2008
A top team for tool grinding
In tool sharpening, a few thousandths of a millimeter are decisive for the quality of the cutting edges. For optimum results when sharpening dull shaft tools, the choice of the right clamping device is crucial. A favorable interfering contour for unhindered interference between grinding wheels and high clamping forces even with a short clamping depth and high material removal are the characteristics that a tool sharpener expects form a toolholder. Not to mention large clamping depths for holding special tools and maximum concentricity and repeat accuracy. SCHUNK, the toolholding specialist from Lauffen am Neckar, meets exactly these requirements with its tool holding / sharpening products.
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