ZPS America LLC

The eight-spindle ZPS 867 CNC multi-spindle production center features a double Siemens 840 D CNC control and is designed to accommodate stock ranging to 72 mm in diameter.   As many as 72 CNC axes are available for drilling, tapping, milling, broaching and hobbing precision parts.

ZPS America’s eight-spindle ZPS 867 CNC multi-spindle production center can accommodate stock to 72-mm diameter.

The ZPS Swiss series from ZPS America covers the range from 11-mm to 32-mm bar diameter. The European-built Swiss-type machine is designed for continuous or series production of precision turned parts.

600 Europe Appoints New Managing DirectorMike Berry has been appointed managing director of 600 Europe, responsible for managing and developing the Group’s newly centralized machine tool business in the U. K.

 A new CNC multi-spindle is available in the U.S. for the first time. Manufactured in the Czech Republic, it has a long pedigree in Europe, but has been reletively unknown here--until now.

Citizen, AMT Machine Systems, CNC Engineering, Kennebec, ZPS and Tooling U are covered in this edition of news.

The eight-spindle Mori-Say TMZ 867 CNC multi-spindle multifunction production center can accommodate barstock as large as 72 mm in diameter and can operate as an open-front chucker. The multi-spindle offers high precision CNC production capability to a range of part sizes that, until now, required other types of machines, such as rotary transfer machines, the company says. Provided with a double Siemens 840 D CNC, the machine offers as many as 72 CNC axes and can perform almost any metalcutting operation on precision parts including drilling, tapping, milling and hobbing.

Applying CNC to a multi-spindle machine must deal with the problem of independently powering each of the main spindles. A machine, new to the North American market, overcomes this problem with a unique approach.