Charlotte, North Carolina – Murata Machinery USA’s MW120II turning center features Muratec’s latest and fastest-ever automation.
Armed with a high-speed, lightweight gantry loader, the MW120II offers significantly increased rapid traverse speeds in the X, Y, and Z axes. With this newly designed gantry loader, traverse speeds 1.5x those of the traditional gantry loader can be achieved.
In addition, the MW120II boasts significant improvements to machine idle time areas as compared to the traditional machine. Overall idle time reductions related to turret clamp/unclamp, chuck clamp/unclamp, and higher speed shutter doors have resulted in load/unload time reductions more than 3 seconds per part.
Like all other Muratec machines, the flexible automation allows for multiple machines to be combined into a single production cell, utilizing common transfer, turnaround, and feeding units to service the machines and provide an efficient production solution.