F. Zimmermann has brought its first horizontal machining centre onto the market. The new model range is useful for efficient machining of standard components for the aircraft industry. It has two special newly developed features: the pallet handling and the travelling column. The key element of the new FZH400 5-axis horizontal machining centre is a robust water-cooled travelling column. Common designs have the drawback that their deviation increases as the slide extends, owing to a lever effect. This is not the case with the column design of the new FZH400. With increasing penetration into the material, the guide carriage distance increases, and that increases the rigidity. The stepped drive guide ensures a constant geometry along the Z axis as well as maximum rigidity in sensitive areas of the workpiece. Zimmermann also offers a family of milling heads that have been used in gantry machines throughout the world. A good example is the patented M3 ABC 3-axes milling head that increases the efficiency of the horizontal machining centre even more because it has to perform only very small swivelling movements. This makes it possible to maintain a constant advance rate. www.f-zimmermann.com
