After we posted the last article,“For hydraulic cartridge valves with high requirements, AAK produces them using 5-axis CNC machine tools, someone left a message: Can AAK use a 5-axis machining center to process hydraulic manifold blocks? From the IP, it should be a customer from Russia. Most hydraulic manifold manufacturers do not use this sophisticated equipment to produce hydraulic manifold blocks. How does hydraulic manifold manufacturer AAK use a 5-axis machining center to process hydraulic manifold blocks?
Most hydraulic manifold manufacturers use domestically produced or Taiwanese machining centers for their hydraulic manifold blocks, because the accuracy requirements for most hydraulic manifold blocks are not high, and 5-axis machining centers are also expensive. Not every hydraulic manifold manufacturer can have a 5-axis machining center. Why this Russian customer requires a hydraulic manifold manufacturer to use a 5-axis machining center to process hydraulic manifolds blocks? He is likely to have encountered trouble with the valve hole accuracy of the hydraulic manifold blocks not meeting the standard. The higher accuracy the hydraulic manifold blocks require, the more they need to be machined on a 5-axis machining center. Today, the hydraulic manifold manufacturer AAK workshop was processing hydraulic manifold blocks on site, and I took a video for the processing.
From the video, it can be seen that this is a horizontal 5-axis machining center from Japan. The advantage of this equipment is that the hydraulic manifold block can be processed with just one clamping of the blank parts. Most hydraulic manifold manufacturers process one surface before processing another, which not only has low efficiency but also poses risks of inaccurate positioning. AAK technicians first place the rough piece of the hydraulic manifold block on the fixture, position it while calibrating it with a balance ruler, then tighten the fixture and calibrate it again with a balance ruler until the positioning is correct, and then start the equipment. The dual box structure of this equipment ensures stable machining accuracy. Especially when the rectangular guide rail is combined with the movable mechanical structure of the column, the cutting becomes smoother and the accuracy of the valve hole is also stable.
AAK hydraulic manifold blocks, processed with a 5-axis machining center, welcome to try it out!
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