as9100d
Stainless
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2019
- Location
- Paris, Arkansas
What I have is a part thats roughly 4"x4" x 1.15" Made of Acetal. The outside 4 edges get 1 hole dead center of all axis. The drilled hole is all the way to the center of the part where they converge into a 1/2" center hole.
We make some 5000 of these a month and while op1/2 arent that bad, the last op for the 4 holes on the 4th axis take up the most real spindle time because of the load/unload and rotations.
What I want to do is remove this last op from the $100,000+ cnc machines and move them to a machine I can build for about $4000 in materials not taking into account the labor, I have several projects that could use this type of automation and will look at the labor as a trade off for learning.
What im struggling with is wrapping my head around a way to load and position the material via conveyor or other cheap method other than a person manually loading and unloading this machine.
I will purchase 4 er11 1.5kw spindles and vfd drives to power the 4 drills. Then I will make some ball screw driven axis that move those spindles.
Any of you fine folks ever gone down this road and have photos to share?
We make some 5000 of these a month and while op1/2 arent that bad, the last op for the 4 holes on the 4th axis take up the most real spindle time because of the load/unload and rotations.
What I want to do is remove this last op from the $100,000+ cnc machines and move them to a machine I can build for about $4000 in materials not taking into account the labor, I have several projects that could use this type of automation and will look at the labor as a trade off for learning.
What im struggling with is wrapping my head around a way to load and position the material via conveyor or other cheap method other than a person manually loading and unloading this machine.
I will purchase 4 er11 1.5kw spindles and vfd drives to power the 4 drills. Then I will make some ball screw driven axis that move those spindles.
Any of you fine folks ever gone down this road and have photos to share?