12.05.2020
A little unit of normality.
300 visitors at the HEDELIUS in-house exhibition 2020.
Seeing machines under chip removal, talking shop, networking - for three days, the machining centres were once again buzzing in the large demonstration centre at HEDELIUS and many of the 300 or so visitors clearly enjoyed feeling the trade fair atmosphere again after the long break due to coronavirus. "It almost felt like normality," summarised Managing Director Dennis Hempelmann. "And that's a good feeling. I would like to thank all our guests and co-exhibitors for being there."
The premiere of the in-house, highly productive MARATHON P406 automation solution for production-accompanying fixture automation in single parts or small series production was very popular. In combination with the ACURA 65 5-axis machining centre and the standby magazine as a large tool store, tooling times can be drastically reduced. In addition, the "little brother" of the MARATHON P422 shines with perfect accessibility. The six pallet locations, which are designed for a clamping weight of 250 kg each, can be rotated, which is unique in this class. HEDELIUS Maschinenfabrik is thus consistently pursuing its strategy of offering integrated in-house automation solutions.
The TWINNER concept - a linear interlinking of an ACURA 50 and an ACURA 65 with an INDUMATIK Light 120 - and automation solutions with a robot cell from BMO or a pallet magazine from EROWA also attracted a great deal of interest.
HEDELIUS sales engineer Holger Lienau showed very clearly in his presentation "Precious metal scaffolding and set-up phobia - treatment methods and successes" that automation that saves non-productive time and ensures quality is a key to higher productivity and greater economic success.
Despite the great interest in automation, visitors also focused on the wide range of possibilities offered by the TILTENTA swivelling head series machining centres and the 3-axis machines from the FORTE series. HEDELIUS had installed a total of 15 machining centres for the in-house exhibition, some with automation solutions. The offer for visitors was rounded off by an accompanying trade exhibition with well-known partner companies and guided tours of the ultra-modern HEDELIUS production facilities.
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What do the Olympic Games have to do with metalworking? At first glance, not much. Some might immediately think of the customary bite that winning athletes take out of their medals. But it’s worth taking a closer look – because the right equipment can make all the difference when it comes to those crucial hundredths of a second. When German athletes compete for medals at the Olympics, in many cases there is a great amount of development and manufacturing work behind the scenes. At the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment (FES) in Berlin, this also includes CNC technology from HEDELIUS Maschinenfabrik in Meppen.
(PDF | DE) Machining large workpieces flexibly whilst reducing unproductive downtime: The TILTENTA 9-2600 with MARATHON LR810 combines the advantages of a universal travelling-column machine with high-performance heavy-duty automation. During the day, the machine remains freely accessible for the manual machining of large and complex single parts, whilst the automation system enables additional productive spindle hours outside regular shifts. Up to ten pallet locations and a transfer weight of 2,000 kg provide the ideal conditions for this.
Steingross Feinmechanik GmbH & Co. KG specialises in the manufacture of sophisticated CNC-turned and CNC-milled components – from prototypes through to series production. Founded in Berlin in 1990 by Uwe Steingross, the company sees itself as a comprehensive system supplier of CNC machining technology and combines modern milling and turning processes with surface treatment, precision finishing, final assembly and design consultancy. Since 2019, Steingross has been relying heavily on HEDELIUS as a technology partner – including for the automation of its manufacturing processes.
