XYZ hydraulic surface grinder bought by MHV

MHV Products has bought a surface grinder from XYZ Machine Tools to fulfil its requirement for a relatively large table on a compact machine.

The order that prompted the installation of the XYZ 1224 hydraulic surface grinder involved the machining of 2in-thick steel plates 700mm long by 300mm wide.

XYZ surface grinder has useful larger table

Machining had to be extremely accurate in terms of final thickness and parallelism as the plates were intended for machines that punch the centre holes in 'master' CDs.

However, they were too big to grind on the company's existing surface grinder.

The initial solution involved outsourcing the surface-grinding operation, but this resulted in turnaround times of anything up to three weeks.

The alternative was to invest in a surface grinder with a larger table, although with only a limited demand for surface grinding, Kevin Hibbert, director and owner of MHV Products, opted for a manual machine rather than one equipped with a digital readout or CNC system.

The XYZ 1224 fitted the bill, especially as it has a footprint of 3550 x 2550mm and is supplied as standard with a permanent or electromagnetic chuck, dust extraction and flood coolant, as well as power rise and fall to the wheelhead.

Available options include automatic incremental downfeed, overhead wheel dresser and digital readout.

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Software upgrade eases hydraulic design

Hydraulic and electrical designs are integrated through a combined design platform that has the flexibility to customise views to select only essential electrical design information.

Zuken has released the 2008 version of the dedicated fluid design module of the E3.series environment.

The new version makes the design of hydraulics and pneumatics a more cohesive part of the design process.

Hydraulics design engineers benefit from the best of both the individual and collective approaches to design.

Hydraulic and electrical designs are integrated through a combined design platform that has the flexibility to customise views to select only essential electrical design information, eliminating the unnecessary burden of irrelevant electrical complexity within the design view.

In addition, both hydraulics and electrical designers can now work within E3.series simultaneously, enabling them to work more collaboratively while improving quality and reducing development cycles.

Now fully integrated with electrical systems, the customised platform provides hydraulics engineers with a dedicated design environment complete with the ability to define their own symbols, such as tubes and hoses.

Hydraulic and pneumatic sheets are on display in the project tree and likewise, specific components appear in the components trees.

Customised views allow all users to select the level of detail of either the hydraulic or electrical data in the design view they are working on.

This is powered by the E3.enterprise edition, which enables concurrent design in a multiuser environment.

In the 2008 version, many of the advancements also have a direct advantage for the E3.fluid user.

It has improved functionality for quickly managing product variants and options and the ability to embed any file for improved project management.
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