So I've run he snot out of this 560 for a couple years now and it's been extremely reliable and trouble free. I really love this mill. This week an operator did something I didn't think was possible on this machine. It's a Cat 40 dual contact spindle, with a random access magazine that is accessible via a door while the machine is cutting. We have a production job that requires frequent insert changes, so about once an hour we change inserts and put the tool back in the magazine via this door.
The magazine pots normally only allow you to seat the tool in one orientation, well somehow it got in backwards and locked up the tool changer during the cycle. A cat 40 holder won't seat on the drive keys 180 degrees out of orientation. It wasn't making a limit switch to show the tool seated in the spindle, and we had cycled power in early attempts to get things going (don't do this) so it lost spindle orientation...can't seat the tool all the way because it's backwards, can't orient the spindle because the swing arm and tool were 90% of the way seated...so yeah.the normal recovery process won't work....you're screwed.
Long story short, I had to dig into the parameters to manually reverse the sequences up until things could be corrected. We lost some time figuring that all out, but I took notes when I was done.
It's been the bermuda triangle of weird shit around here this month Hopefully it's all out of the system now and we can make chips.
The magazine pots normally only allow you to seat the tool in one orientation, well somehow it got in backwards and locked up the tool changer during the cycle. A cat 40 holder won't seat on the drive keys 180 degrees out of orientation. It wasn't making a limit switch to show the tool seated in the spindle, and we had cycled power in early attempts to get things going (don't do this) so it lost spindle orientation...can't seat the tool all the way because it's backwards, can't orient the spindle because the swing arm and tool were 90% of the way seated...so yeah.the normal recovery process won't work....you're screwed.
Long story short, I had to dig into the parameters to manually reverse the sequences up until things could be corrected. We lost some time figuring that all out, but I took notes when I was done.
It's been the bermuda triangle of weird shit around here this month Hopefully it's all out of the system now and we can make chips.