Aluminium components - Import export

In the aviation industry, there is an increasing trend towards larger and larger monolithic structural components. The ECOSPEED series, featuring a horizontal spindle and a vertical pallet arrangement, has been specially developed for highspeed machining of these large structural aluminum components. A pallet transport system feeds pallets to the machine, the storage station and the loading/unloading station. The innovative Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic machining head, provides the user with the optimum 5axis simultaneous machining process. At a maximum cutting volume of up to 8,000 cm3/min, the machine concept is the world's most productive solution for cutting aluminium structural components, drastically cutting both production times and costs.

This highspeed machining center for long aluminium stringer components combines the advantages of SprintZ3 technology with rapidity and accuracy to provide efficient work piece machining with optimised workpiece handing. The machine is specially designed for machining aluminium profiles (or stringers) of up to 30 metres in length. Thanks to the excellent precision and speed the ECOLINER user can achieve high cutting rates (average machining time of 12 minutes per linear meter), optimum accuracy and excellent surface quality, even with extremely long stringers.

Scharmann has developed the ECOSPEED F for highspeed machining of mediumsized aluminium structural components. The horizontal spindle arrangement, the vertical pallet arrangement and the Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic machining head, which delivers high travel speeds (50 m/min) and accelerations (9.81 m/s²), all come from the successful ECOSPEED. What sets the F version apart from the standard ECOSPEED is that the machine column is stationary. The pallet travels in the X direction on the vertically arranged table group. The ECOSPEED F is equipped with a rotating double pallet station, located parallel to the Xaxis, which enables component loading and unloading during the machining cycle

Scharmann has developed the ECOSPEED F for highspeed machining of mediumsized aluminium structural components. The horizontal spindle arrangement, the vertical pallet arrangement and the Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic machining head, which delivers high travel speeds (50 m/min) and accelerations (9.81 m/s²), all come from the successful ECOSPEED. What sets the F version apart from the standard ECOSPEED is that the machine column is stationary. The pallet travels in the X direction on the vertically arranged table group. The ECOSPEED F is equipped with a rotating double pallet station, located parallel to the Xaxis, which enables component loading and unloading during the machining cycle.

Scharmann has developed the ECOSPEED F for highspeed machining of mediumsized aluminium structural components. The horizontal spindle arrangement, the vertical pallet arrangement and the Sprint Z3 parallel kinematic machining head, which delivers high travel speeds (50 m/min) and accelerations (9.81 m/s²), all come from the successful ECOSPEED. What sets the F version apart from the standard ECOSPEED is that the machine column is stationary. The pallet travels in the X direction on the vertically arranged table group. The ECOSPEED F is equipped with a rotating double pallet station, located parallel to the Xaxis, which enables component loading and unloading during the machining cycle.

Ecospeed is the synonym for the most economic method of machining complex aluminium structural components in the aerospace industry. Based around its’ unique parallel kinematics Sprint Z3 machining head, Ecospeed represents by far the most productive solution for the high performance cutting of monolithic aluminium aerostructures. The Ecospeed family has been continuously developed to meet market demands. New challenges imposed by the market are implemented within a team framework, by maintaining intensive contact with end users. Yet another recent customerdriven requirement placed on the Starrag Technology GmbH management board was to supply an optimized economic Ecospeed variant for machining long and narrow structural components at high cutting rates and using complex 5axis geometries with 5side access to the work piece.