Gantry machining centre VPC
The VPC with its vertical spindle is particularly designed for machining large plate-shaped workpieces. The implementation of angular heads also simply enables lateral machining. The clever layout provides for excellent workspace use. The portal drives the spindle above a real gantry drive in the Y-axis. The machine footprint is thus hardly larger than the optimally arranged working area.
Main design
Main design
- Extremely rigid, static and dynamically well balanced ground frame construction
- Spacious and easily accessible machine tables
- Direct measuring systems for X/Y/Z axes
- Cover according to current machinery directives
- Ideal for crane loading by the open covering over the work area
- Machine transport in one single piece
- Optimal accessibility for all maintenance and service requirements
In addition, the VPC can be flexibly extended, for example:
- Through spindle coolant with filter system
- Chip conveyor in slat-band belt, scraper belt or magnetic belt versions
- Controllers either from Heidenhain or Siemens
- Rotary tables horizontally or vertically integrated, in 1 or 2 axes, combined with tailstocks, counterbearings or a further rotary table in gantry mode for clamping bridges
- Automatic doors
- Clamping systems – hydraulic, pneumatic, magnetic or manual
- Touch probes and tool touch probe systems
- Active power monitoring, collision monitoring and complete process monitoring
- Tool identification systems
- Laser breakage control with tool measurement
- Remote maintenance
Guideways and drives
Guideways and drives
- Combination of sliding and roller guideways for high dynamics, stiffness and absorption
- Guiding built upon manually scraped or grinded surface
- Optimal guiding by extremely large guidance ratio
- Real gantry drive in the Y-axis with corresponding individual drive, guideway and direct measuring system for both portal sides
- Drives and guideways are protected
- Ball screws in all linear axes
Tool changing system
Tool changing system
- Simple and very robust stationary placed tool changer
- Magazine protected in rear part of machine
- Stationary tool changer layout allows for long tool chains without any negative effect on machine dynamics and precision
- Fixed location coded tool management for better operator monitoring
- Simultaneous tool pre-selection by double gripping system
- Support of various tool holding systems such as SK, BT, HSK, CAPTO
- Magazine placement possible during machining
Technical data
Product brochure
Product brochure
For more information about our VPC please have a look at the brochure. Click here to open or download the brochure as pdf file.
Examples of use
Examples of use
Application videos
Application videos
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