Among other things, the DMG MORI Aerospace Excellence Center implements Green Button processes with automatic monitoring and control without manual intervention.
DMG MORI recently demonstrated an easycenterSET technology cycle on a DMC 125 FD duoBLOCK.
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The DMG MORI Technology Excellence Centers operate as central industry units for leading aerospace, automotive, die & mold and medical industries in its global sales network. DMG MORI reported that the global aerospace industry expands continuously by about 7% per annum, and the high quality demand and the tremendous amount of competitive pressure compels manufacturers and machinery suppliers to implement increasingly productive manufacturing solutions for the valuable and often safety-related aerospace components. This task is taken care of by the Aerospace Excellence Center in the DMG MORI plant in Pfronten, Germany.
With its 20 plus years of technology experience, the DMG MORI Aerospace Excellence Center is involved in all phases of customer and order acquisition. Services provided range from the optimization of existing metalcutting processes to the planning of Green Field projects from scratch. "We also help customers to gain a foothold in the aerospace industry by means of industry-internal know-how for the manufacture of specific components," added Michael Kirbach, Manager of the DMG MORI Aerospace Excellence Center. The range of services includes giving advice and also delivering holistic solutions within the scope of turn-key projects, including complete automation and many special options.
"Demanding materials such as titanium alloys, metallurgically manufactured high-temperature materials and ceramic compound materials will reveal the boundaries of metalcutting capability in the future," said Kirbach. "Automation, digitization and holistic thinking about the respective process chains are therefore regarded as decisive production trends in the aerospace industry. As far as automation is concerned, as well as the actual handling itself, the focus is also on the individual process in order to give the entire value creation chain a more reliable and reproducible structure. An example is the Green Button process, a safe and reliable process that avoids manual intervention using automatic monitoring and control."
Kirbach thinks that process optimizations such as this are vital: "The quantities and the high-quality components of today justify this effort more than ever before. Digitization is said to be an important element in this respect, for example DMG MORI technology cycles such as the CONDITION ANALYZER. This is integrated in the CELOS app-based control and operating system. More and more aerospace component manufacturers are taking the opportunities provided by digitalization to analyze processes in a better way, understand them and optimize them-even control them adaptively, if necessary."
DMG MORI recently demonstrated the easycenterSET DMG MORI technology cycle on a DMC 125 FD. This is an automatically adjustable plate between the palette and the component device that measures the eccentricity of the pre-centered component and automatically centers it with an accuracy of 5 µm. The documented result provides the customer with a high degree of process reliability during milling/cutting, particularly when using automation solutions.
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