High Speed Drilling and Tapping
High-speed drilling and tapping are essential processes in manufacturing and construction industries. These techniques involve drilling holes and creating threads quickly and efficiently, allowing for increased productivity and precision in various applications. By utilising high-speed drilling and tapping, companies can streamline their operations and achieve faster turnaround times without sacrificing quality.
Elevate Your Machining with FANUC
High-speed drilling and tapping offer several advantages. With advanced spindles and rapid tool changers, these processes ensure quick transitions between operations, leading to significantly reduced cycle times and increased throughput. Their versatility allows them to handle a wide range of tasks, making them ideal for maximising efficiency in compact spaces.
Benefits
Benefits for your Business
Adapt Fast to Changing Circumstances
With long-term production runs increasingly a thing of the past, high-speed milling technology gives you the power to adapt flexibly to rapidly changing production demands and schedules.
Responsive Production
Quick to set up and capable of doing the work of larger machines, compact vertical machining centres make a great addition to your production mix since they allow you to free up capacity and respond quickly by spreading your workload across more than one machine.
Increased Reliability
Some state-of-the-art vertical milling centres are built with as few parts as possible, radically reducing the risk of downtime. Equipped with high quality spindles, tool changers and motors they are designed for ultimate reliability.
More Cutting Power
Despite their relatively small size, thanks to their powerful spindles good compact vertical machining centres are often capable of milling material that normally only special HSC machines can handle
Flexibility on a Small Footprint
Compact and space saving, cleverly designed vertical machining centres add additional flexibility to already crowded production environments without the need for additional floor space.
Fast Tool Changing
At only 1.3 seconds, the superlative cut-to-cut speeds provided by high-speed tool changers reduce cycle times and increase throughput.
Zero Point Clamping
Since the tool starting point is found automatically, this kind of functionality makes set ups faster and allows you to take out workpieces, in favour of high priority jobs, and return to exactly the same position at another time.
Cut Harder, Longer
Today's high-speed milling technology employs light but very strong spindles can handle heavier loads for longer periods during the duty cycle.
Intelligent Thermal Control
Thermal displacement technology prevents overheating and reduces cycle times by allowing the spindle motor to run constantly at, and not beyond, its maximum temperature.
Increased Rigidity Against Radial Forces
Big Plus spindle technology maximises rigidity and clamping pressure for better tool life, accuracy and cutting power.
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Accessories & Software
Accessories & Software for High Speed Drilling and Tapping
FANUC accessories for high-speed drilling and tapping are designed to elevate the efficiency and precision of the manufacturing process.
Automatic Tool Changer
Tool-to-tool changes on ROBODRILL α-D𝑖B Plus models are extremely fast – ranging from 0.9 seconds on our standard versions to an incredible 0.7 on the advanced. Cut to cut that means 1.5 seconds fo...
Fast Cycle Time Technology
Are you ready to significantly reduce downtime and increase your production rates? Our Fast Cycle Time Technology can revolutionise your manufacturing by significantly reducing cycle times and opti...
Cutting Load Monitor – PC and 𝑖HMI
Enhance the efficiency and precision of your CNC machining with our FANUC Cutting Load Monitor for PC and 𝑖HMI. This innovative solution offers real-time cutting load monitoring directly on your PC...
Robot G-Code
Our Robot G-Code empowers your existing CNC operators to programme FANUC robots directly through familiar G-code commands. This innovative feature eliminates the need for separate robot programming...
𝑖HMI Cycle Programming & MANUAL GUIDE 𝑖
Discover streamlined CNC programming with 𝑖HMI Cycle Programming and FANUC’s MANUAL GUIDE 𝑖. These powerful tools increase your productivity, simplify programming and streamline your shop floor.
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Vedos
Vedos Achieves Precision with FANUC ROBODRILL
When it comes to finding the right balance between high-precision, efficiency and cost, precision component manufacturer Vedos relies on FANUC’s ROBODRILL milling centers.
Grip GmbH Handhabungstechnik
A Good Grip on Machining: ROBODRILL Provides Six-Fold Increase in Capacity
With rising global demand for robots, Grip GmbH needed more machining centre capacity to enhance productivity and reduce costs. They chose FANUC's advanced ROBODRILL 𝛼-D21M𝑖B5ADV machining centres, known for speed, precision, reliability, and flexibility, even for single component lots. These machines, featuring a FANUC robot and an innovative tool and workpiece handling system, enable unmanned production of small series and individual parts. This solution boosted Grip GmbH's machining capacity nearly six-fold.
Euroedil
EUROEDIL Enjoys Faster Cutting Rates and Higher Throughput with FANUC Machines
With its new FANUC machines in-site, EUROEDIL has increased its cutting rate and throughput to meet rising volume demands from customers. Moreover, the accuracy and precision of the company’s die-cutting tools have improved noticeably.
Transform your Industry with FANUC ROBODRILL
Automotive
Mass-producing parts for the automotive industry requires versatile machining centres. Combining speed and replicable accuracy, ROBODRILL produces flawless parts with minimal downtime, fast cycle times, and quick acceleration. In the light of rapidly changing production runs, programming and setup are just as easy as maintenance and operation – thereby minimising cost and maximising availability. Moreover, ROBODRILL’s on-board monitoring ensures that preventive maintenance is focused, timely, and necessary
Aerospace
In the aerospace industry, the need for precision and reliability in manufacturing small metal parts, such as those found in aircraft engines, is paramount. FANUC ROBODRILL is engineered to meet these exacting standards, offering exceptional accuracy and speed in machining intricate components. Whether producing complex parts for engines or other critical aircraft systems, ROBODRILL ensures consistent quality, reducing the margin for error and enhancing overall safety. With its robust performance and cutting-edge technology, ROBODRILL is the ideal solution for aerospace manufacturers striving for excellence in every component.
Electronics
Electronics' industry applications often require tiny holes drilled in precision components such as disk enclosures and watch plates. To do this, ROBODRILL comes with a finely balanced spindle to ensure a very high degree of repeatable accuracy. To maximise precision on applications of this kind, ROBODRILL also includes a tool cleaning unit. Cleaning both the tool and spindle during tool changes, this feature vastly improves repeatability
Medical
Despite their complexity, medical equipment and implants often require finishing to exceptionally high standards. ROBODRILL has several different features designed to drastically reduce cycle times and make achieving these perfect surfaces easy. These include 5-axis functionality such as High-Speed Smooth TCP (a feature that radically improves surface quality by compensating for tool direction to avoid stripes), Tool Centre Point Control (TCP) and Tilted Working Plane.
Plastics
FANUC ROBODRILL is a vital asset in the plastics industry, specifically designed for the precision demands of mould making. Essential for injection moulding, high-quality moulds are crucial to producing accurate and consistent plastic components. ROBODRILL excels in creating intricate, high-precision moulds with exceptional speed and reliability. Its advanced machining capabilities ensure that every detail of the mould is crafted to perfection, enhancing the overall efficiency and quality of your injection moulding processes. With ROBODRILL, you can achieve superior moulds that meet the stringent demands of modern plastics manufacturing.
Electric Vehicles
Aluminium is essential for e-mobility, not least due to its lightweight properties. ROBODRILL proves ideal for use with aluminium parts, given the repeatable accuracy provided by its finely balanced spindle. In addition, ROBODRILL also offers flexible machining concepts, allowing you to react quickly in case of changing customer demands or designs
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