INDEX Corporation

Sliding/Fixed Headstock Automatic Lathe with B Axis
The Traub TNL18 sliding/fixed headstock automatic lathe with seven linear axes now is available from Index with an extra B axis, expanding its applicability to particularly challenging machining tasks.

Doing More with Less
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Eight Spindles for Complex Parts
Index’s MS22C-8 from its Multiline series is a modular eight-spindle machine that is especially useful for machining highly complex parts.

Manufacturing Medical Devices for Today and Tomorrow
The pace of change in medical device design and manufacturing is rapid and is fueling demand for machine tool capability that not only reduces cost per piece today, but can open doors to producing new types of parts in the future.

Six are Good, Eight are Better
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Beefed-Up Backworking on New CNC Multi-Spindle
This CNC multi-spindle automatic lathe includes a quillstock with six tool carriers and one counter spindle opposite the main six-spindle drum, allowing machining of complex workpieces in a single process.

Turn-Mill Classics
Here are trailers for some of the classic articles on turn-mill multitasking. This is a broad showing of turn-mill technology in the form of machines, processes, programming and applications.

Jeff Reinert, President
PMTS is a great opportunity for us to interface with our customers and see what they need and what types of equipment would be beneficial to them in their various industries.

Sliding Headstock Automatic for Swiss and Production Turning
 The TRAUB TNL18 production turning machine is capable of five-axis machining in a single setup.

Cut Cycle Times in Half
Jake Grainger says he always had a mechanical bent, and 38 years ago when he first walked into a screw machine shop he was hooked.

Using Energy Efficiently Can Boost Profitability
As energy costs increase, making efficient use of kilowatts is more important than ever.

Sliding Headstock Automatic Lathes
The TNL18 and the TNL18P are sliding headstock automatic lathes designed to be changed over quickly to produce precision parts with or without a guide bush for long or short parts ranging to a 20-mm-diameter bar.

Sliding Headstock Automatic for Swiss and Production Turning, Index
The Traub TNL18 P production turning machine is capable of five-axis machining in a single setup.

Switching to Swiss Without a Guide Bushing
When the part doesn't require a guide bushing, being able to remove that housing provides increased flexibility and often even improves accuracy.

A New Breed Of Turn-Mill Center
The turn-mill center continues to evolve its capabilities. This new machine from Index is an example.

40-mm Multi-Spindle
Index Corporation’s MS40C is a CNC multi-spindle for virtually unlimited operations on small workpieces from bar as long as 40-mm (1. 57”) diameter or for chucking as long as 120 mm (4.

Multitask Production Turning Center
Index Corporation’s C200 series of production turn-mill centers offers a choice of controls: either Fanuc 31i CNC or Siemens 840D CNC. The unit is available in two spindle sizes for the main and counterspindles.

High Production Turn-Mill Centers
The C100 series of production turn-mill centers are versatile, high production machines linked in real-time to the company’s Virtual Machine programming and simulation suite. Virtual Machine includes user software that is a mirror of the real machine configuration. The data allow users to program, set up and operate the “virtual machine” in exactly the same way as the real machine.

Investment Pays Off For Contract Shop
This shop added a CNC multi-spindle to its operation and reduced its cycle time and setup time.

Production Turn-Mill Centers
With three 14-position tool turrets and identical main and counterspindles, the Index C100 is designed for fast production of medium complexity parts, turned parts from barstock from 30 to 42 mm diameter. For small to medium lot sizes, the three-turret machines are targeted to handle fixed headstock work often run on Swiss-type machines.

Optics Maker Focuses On Flexible Production
Leupold & Stevens has found the key to successful precision machining. It operates more than 30 Index machines, primarily multifunction turning machines used to produce the bodies and tubes for the rifle scopes from aircraft-quality aluminum.

EMO 2007: A Winner All Around
It’s probably blasphemous to describe Germans as giddy, but that’s the best word I can conjure for the mood at the recently completed EMO exhibition in Hannover.  

A Talk With Index’s President
Recently, I was able to catch up with Olaf Tessarzyk, the busy president and CEO of Index Corporation, at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana.

Taking Its Turn
This family-owned job shop is more interested in what its capital investments can do than how much they cost. Keeping its demanding automotive customers happy means paying attention to the details and applying the right technology to the job.

Turn-Mill Range
With three 14-position tool turrets and identical main and counterspindles, the space-saving C100s are designed for fast, cost-competitive production of medium-complexity turned parts from barstock with diameters between 30 mm and 42 mm. Suited for small to medium lot sizes, the three-turret machines deliver high performance within a small floor space and handle fixed headstock work often run on Swiss-type machines. The center, with 30-mm bar capacity, comes with 9,000-rpm spindles, and 42-mm bar capacity is available with 7,000-rpm spindles.

Turn-Mill Center With Modular Turret System
The turn-mill center Traub TNX65/42 is designed as a modular system equipped with two, three or four tool turrets. Thus, machining with as many as 80 fixed or driven tools is possible without a magazine. The machine processes geometrically complex series parts with a diameter of as much as 65 mm and a length of as much as 300 mm.

CNC Turn-Mill Center
- Brochure describes the features and benefits of the TNX65/42 CNC turn-mill center- Photographs and diagrams show the detailed features of the turrets and modular system- The Traub TX8i-s CNC control is illustrated- Technical data is listed in the back of the brochure.

Consider A Programmable Guide Bushing
An example of the "set it and forget it" guide bushing adjustment is a programmable guide bushing available on Traub’s TNL series by Index Corp. It offers the ability to program the CNC to provide a series of guide bushing pressures on the bar based on dynamic conditions.

Sticker Shock Relief For The CNC Multi-Spindle
To bridge the gap between traditional multi-spindle technology and full CNC, Index Corporation (Noblesville, Indiana) has developed the MS22C, a six-spindle CNC multi for the medium-complex workpiece market, which has been dominated by the cam-controlled multi-spindle automatics and simple sliding and fixed headstock automatics.

Multitasking With Brand Loyalty
SureFire LLC (Fountain Valley, California) has found one name in machine tools it can trust, and therefore, has invested in several different types of machines with at least one thing in common—the name "Index" in large letters written on the machines’ bodies.

Production Turning Machine
- Describes the benefits of Index's SpeedLine C42/C65 production turning machine by using photos, diagrams and charts- Illustrates the machine's ability to live as much as 30 percent longer than other machines- Technical data is listed on the back of the brochure.

CNC Sliding Headstock Automatic
- Features of the TNL 26 CNC sliding headstock are highlighted by using photos, diagrams and bullet-point text- Information on the Traub-TX8i control technology is included- Technical data is also listed.

Grinding On Vertical Turning Center
The V160 vertical grinding and machining center incorporates ID/OD grinding, auto loading and rough machining (hard turning) with automatic in-machine wheel dressing and in-process gauging. The machine produces precision parts in a single chucking. The system is capable of performing inverted vertical OD and ID-grinding and turning on one platform, saving users through-put time and capital cost while improving cycle times and precision for a wide range of parts, according to the company.

Fixed And Sliding Headstock Machines In One Series
The Traub TNL26 sliding headstock machine from Index Corp. is available with two 12-station turrets (Y axis optional on both turrets), a five-station endworking tool carrier, a counterspindle and a five-station backworking tool carrier; the maximum Z-axis travel is approximately 10" on the L version and 4" on the K version. The maximum number of fixed tools is approximately 58.

CNC Automatics
- Brochure includes component and operation descriptions of the TNL12 CNC sliding headstock automatic and TNL12K CNC single-spindle bar automatic- Photos and diagrams accompany these descriptions to help illustrate- Technical data is also included.

Technical Member Profile: Index Corporation
The Index Group, located in Esslingen, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision turning and multitask machine tools. Its products include single- and multi-spindle equipment, as well as sliding headstock machines.

Software Meets Shop's Multitasking Machine Programming Needs
Structure Medical is not new to the medical supply industry; it is a spin-off of a company called Inovo, which is a manufacturer of oxygen regulators used in hospitals, nursing homes and the like. Inovo’s principals had been looking for growth opportunities.

Turn-Mill Center
- Literature highlights the TNX80/65 turn-mill center and provides specifications - Illustrations show the machine in operation as well as a diagram of the components in relation to where they are attached to the machine - Listed are the bar capacity, turning length, chuck diameter and more .

Online Training--A Lesson In Reality
As machines become more complex, training becomes an even greater issue. Regardless of what machine features attract a customer, if the operator does not learn how to take advantage of these features, the machine can quickly become a white elephant.

Single-Spindle CNC Bar Machine
The C65 CNC Single Spindle Bar Machine features a counterspindle and Y axis for extended machining flexibility and increased speed. With optional 42-mm (1 5/8inch), or 65-mm (2 ½”) bar capacity, a maximum spindle speed of 6,300 rpm, respectively 5,000 rpm at 20 kW or 26 Hp at 100 percent (60 min) duty rating and 105 Nm (77 foot pounds) of torque, the C65 has enough power to do a lot of work in a short time, the company says. Both turret slides and the counterspindle slide offer a 1 G acceleration rate, and rapid traverse rates of 25 and 50 m/min (75 and 150 ft/min), adding to the productivity because of its faster motions.

Medical Machining: Speed And Accuracy Win Orders
To handle the steady flow of incoming orders, this company has prepared itself by building facilities and purchasing equipment that are able to complete its jobs quickly and efficiently.

Rethinking The Multi-Spindle
When the Index MS line, with its open front-end design, hit the streets 4 years ago, it was obviously different. The question is why is it so different? The answer is revealing.

Turning Machines With Fixed And Sliding Headstock
The Traub TNL and TNL-K machine series offers both fixed and sliding headstock designs on the same machine platform for small turned parts. Four machines are available in this series. TNL offers long/sliding headstock Swiss-type turning, and TNL-K offers fixed headstock screw machine-type turning.

CNC Multi-Spindle Automatics
This literature highlights the company's multi-spindle line with illustrations, an overview of the CNC tool carrier concept and the centerpiece. A summary of benefits and technical data are also included. .

Meeting China's Challenge, British Style
This British shop is writing off simple, low-margin jobs, concentrating instead on tough-to-make parts in medium to high volumes for its new CNC multi-spindle machines.

Meeting China's Challenge, British Style(2)
This British shop is writing off simple, low-margin jobs, concentrating instead on tough-to-make parts in medium to high volumes for its new CNC multi-spindle machines.

Programming Multitasking Machines?
Applying the right tools and technique to CNC part programming will let shops get the most out of their multitasking equipment.

No Guide Bushing On A Swiss-type?
Like much of the metalworking lexicon, often our words fail to adequately describe, or keep up with, our technological innovations. The truth is, in the business of making precision parts it really doesn't matter much if a lathe is a turning center or a mill is a machining center.

CNC Automatic Machines
There are several new brochures. This one covers CNC automatic machines. Others cover CNC, multi-slide and automatic; CNC sliding headstock automatic; and CNC, bar loading and magazines. Series are TNK, TNM, DN and TNL. CNC Automatic Machines INDEX Corp.

Chucking Machine Applies Kinematic Linkage
The V100, a chucking machine concept that uses double rod kinematic linkage instead of slides to move the spindle in three axes. The machine targets chuck work to allow more efficient machining of formed or premachined parts. The V100 is a 5" chucking machine with a turning spindle suspended in space by three double

Single Spindle CNC Automatic
The industry trend today is heading towards an increasing miniaturization--parts become smaller and more complicated and tougher materials put higher demands on machining capabilities. TRAUB Turning Machines, a division of INDEX Werke, Esslingen, Germany, has responded with the development of productive and flexible

Sliding Headstock Machine
The TNL 12/7 machine model takes CNC Swiss turning to a higher level due to increased speed and productivity, the company says. At the same time, the modular concept allows the machine to be tailored to handle either simple or more complex work for cost-optimized manufacturing. The TNL 12/7 is offered in three versi

The New Generation of Multispindles
The MS32P is a CNC-controlled multispindle machine with a 32 mm/1¼" diameter capacity from the Multiline series. A programmable C axis and Y axis have been added. A quick-change tooling system and free chip fall, as well as a highly precise spindle drum locking via a Hirth coupling system are also part of this machi