APRIL 2020 Best value in Universal Grinding! The new Kellenberger 10 • High performance • High productivity • High precision Intuitive touch screen programming with a range of easily customisable options. A highly capable entry level machine. WWW.HARDINGE.COM [email protected] COMPLETECOMPLETE PROTECTIONPROTE COCOMPLETELYMPLETELY WEAWEARABLE [email protected] ipsum www.engineeringutilities.com Tel: +44 (0) 113 255 8887 APRIL 2020 COVER STORY 3 VOLUME 18 | No.2 ISSN 1740 - 1100 New machines a Hardinge theme in 2020 The early months of 2020 have seen two of the Hardinge grinding companies launch brand new machines adding to the group’s highly comprehensive capability covering virtually every grinding www.grindsurf.com technique. January saw the unveiling of the all new Voumard 1000 ID/OD News 4 grinding machine which its designers describe as setting “a new standard in ID grinding” and will provide customers with “the SPECIAL REPORT - FRITZ STUDER 6 ultimate combination of precision and performance in an affordable Production Grinding 8 machine”. This was followed in Grinding Wheels & Discs 24 March with the launch of a new Kellenberger FEATURE - DUST & FUME EXTRACTION 30 machine, the Honing & Bore Finishing 34 Kellenberger 10, which is a highly cost effective, FEATURE - SURFACE MEASUREMENT 38 universal cylindrical grinder suited to Deburring & Polishing 42 precision grinding FEATURE - TOOL & PROFILE GRINDING 50 operations undertaken by both skilled and semi-skilled operators. FEATURE - COMPONENT CLEANING 58 Programming using Kellenberger BLUE solution software features fast, intuitive programming and retooling and a remote FEATURE - BLAST CLEANING 70 diagnostic feature, extending the opportunities for using the machine on a wide variety of applications across the machine shop. Metal Finishing 76 It can accommodate workpieces up to 1,000 x 400 mm in size with a At Your Service 82 top weight of 100 kg. Manufactured from proven Kellenberger components and assemblies, there is inherent reliability within the K10 coupled with Published by Roger Barber Publishing Enterprise House, Foundry Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5PX the ability to greatly expand or customise its capability by adding a range of optional equipment. It features an extremely stable sub- Publisher: Roger Barber Sales: 01403 266022 Fax: 020 8916 0033 frame to minimise external influences and vibration which can affect Email: [email protected] surface finish, all-round component quality and sustained process accuracy. Assistant editor: John Barber - 01403 266022 Email: [email protected] The table profile is also a proven Kellenberger design with the full-length dressing interface located on the rear of the table to Circulation: Chloe Barber - 01403 266022 reduce retooling work and extend the wheel dressing possibilities. Accounts: Jackie Barber - 01403 563791 The machine features generous X- and Z-axis strokes Design & Production: Roger Barber Publishing (X=365 mm/Z=1,150 mm), collision-free operation and dressing Production manager: Anna Rodrigues - 01472 210712 ratios. The low-maintenance, high-precision linear guide on the Email: [email protected] X-axis and the V flat sliding guides on the Z-axis are equipped with Print: Holbrooks Printers Ltd, Portsmouth, Hampshire optical absolute linear position measuring systems. The B-axis is designed as an automatic indexing axis (1° Hirth gearing) with high Grinding & Surface Finishing is a controlled circulation magazine, available free to selected personnel, at the discretion of the publisher. positioning accuracy and +30°/-210° swivel range. This material is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced without For optimum productivity and flexibility, the universal grinding express written permission. Please contact the publisher. head can optionally be equipped with two Ø500/400 mm O.D. grinding wheels. Powerful high-frequency, grease-lubricated I.D. grinding spindles with direct drive are available in two speed NEXT ISSUE - JUNE 2020 ranges (6,000 - 40,000 rpm and 10,000 - 60,000 rpm). The Kellenberger 10 is equipped with a cost-optimised • Automotive Report FANUC 0i-TFP CNC control with a 19” touch screen. • Automation It completes a highly competent machine that will offer any manufacturing or development operation the ability to cost • Deburring effectively produce high precision components fully utilising the • Dust & Fume Extraction available skills of the work team. • Honing & Bore Finishing Jones & Shipman Hardinge Tel: 0116 201 3000 • Polishing & Lapping Email [email protected]. www.jonesshipman.com GSF APRIL 2020 News New dates announced for GrindTec 2020 and MACH exhibitions Due to the growing concerns about the Meanwhile, The Manufacturing on the floorplan, within the same halls on impact of the Coronavirus epidemic, two Technologies Association (MTA), which the Atrium side of the NEC. As part of this, major events have been rescheduled. owns and runs the MACH exhibition on the NEC have agreed to carry forward any GrindTec 2020 will now take place from 11th behalf of the industry, has taken the decision service orders placed or paid for with them to 13th November in the Augsburg to reschedule MACH from April 2020 to (electrics, compressed air etc). The Exhibition Centre, while MACH 2020 has January 2021. exhibition will run for four days with been cancelled and transferred to 25th to Given the spread of the Coronavirus, the extended opening hours, meaning that the 28th January 2021. MTA has decided that, in order to minimise exhibition will be open for a similar time as GrindTec is the most important platform the risks to visitors and exhibitors, and to had been planned in April. The organiser is for the grinding technology sector ensure that the event is as positive as they working hard to finalise the details of the worldwide. Particularly in economically deserve, MACH should be moved to 25-28 rescheduled show and revised paperwork challenging times, the industry needs this January 2021 in the same Halls, at the NEC. will be issued shortly. event, which contributes significantly to the This decision has not been taken lightly, The MTA believes strongly that this new promotion of exports. but it believes that it is in the best interests date will benefit the event and provides the Henning and Thilo Könicke, managing of the industry and those who work in it. The best possible platform for both exhibitors directors of trade fair organiser AFAG MTA’s priority is, of course, the health and and visitors to do business at a time that the Messen und Ausstellungen state: “We’re safety of the 30,000+ people who will visit UK enters its post-Brexit transition phase. pleased that we can inform our partners, and work at MACH. In addition, it believes exhibitors and visitors of a new date for the that by moving MACH to January 2021 it Manufacturing Technologies Association GrindTec 2020 at short notice and thus can can offer a better experience for visitors and Tel: 020 7298 6400 already give them some certainty for their better value for exhibitors than by holding it www.mta.org.uk planning. We’re delighted that the world’s in April 2020 under the conditions likely to leading trade fair for grinding technology be in place at that time. can continue to stay in Augsburg and would All existing stands will be transferred to like to thank the City of Augsburg for their the new event at the same size and position support with the short-term imple- mentation. In determining this new date, we’ve taken particular care to ensure that the event does not clash with other events in the sector. We believe that we have found the best possible date under the current circumstances.” Starting with the next event in 2022, the GrindTec will again take place at its traditional date in March. Up-to-date information is available on a regular basis at www.grindtec.de AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen GmbH Tel: 0049 821 589 82390 Email: [email protected] www.grindtec.de 4 Grinding & Surface Finishing I APRIL 2020 THE ART OF GRINDING. BECAUSE PRECISION IS CREATED UNDER A KEEN EYE. Fritz Studer AG, established in 1912, is a market and technology leader in universal, external and internal cylindrical grinding as well as noncircular grinding. With around 24,000 delivered sys- tems, STUDER has been synonymous with precision, quality and durability for decades. studer.com The Art of Grinding. A member of the UNITED GRINDING Group SPECIAL REPORT - FRITZ STUDER STUDER increases its market share again in 2019 After a record year in 2018, Fritz Studer AG in particular, market conditions were much has reported another very successful year in more challenging than in 2018. However, 2019. With the third best annual turnover in thanks to this broad diversification, Fritz the company's history, the cylindrical Studer AG was able to offset weaker market grinding machine manufacturer increased its segments with stronger ones. For example, market share again, despite difficult market the aviation industry was one of the conditions. One reason for its success is the segments that flourished in 2019. “Our high proportion of new customers, at almost company has also been very well positioned 40 percent. in the aerospace customer segment for Once again, more than 60 journalists from many years and is a preferred supplier of all over the world made their way to the many component suppliers,” explained Bernese Oberland for the Motion Meeting. Sandro Bottazzo, when reviewing the past Under the motto “The Art of Grinding”, the year. STUDER sees one key to its success in company presented some of the things that its global customer-focused sales and make it one of the leading manufacturers of service organisation. This is also one of the cylindrical grinding machines. reasons why the proportion of new At the annual press conference, CEO Jens customers was almost 40 percent last year. Bleher reported a successful 2019, even if Smaller markets, like Great Britain, also the economic situation has deteriorated achieved a very good order intake in 2019.