Spindles

High-speed machining (HSM) allows manufacturers to produce high-quality parts faster, with greater precision, and at a lower cost than conventional machining methods.

These eight benefits can summarize high-speed machining:

Shorter Cycle Times

HSM allows for faster material removal rates that leads to increased production. This results in shorter cycle times and increased production rates, saving you money.

Better Surface Finishes

HSM techniques utilize smaller depths of cut at higher feed rates, improving finishes on machined parts. This often reduces the need for secondary operations or post-processes such as deburring, saving time and money.

Improved Accuracy and Precision

HSM allows more precision and control over cutting forces and tool paths. With the lower cutting forces, there is less tool deflection (bending), leading to improved dimensional accuracy and part quality. HSM is particularly beneficial for intricate, high-precision, complex geometries.

Extended Tool Life

HSM can extend tool life due to reduced cutting forces and heat generation. Heat and vibration kill tools, and HSM substantially reduces these factors. Save money and time setting up a fresh tool by minimizing tool wear and prolonging the tool's life.

Versatility

HSM opens your capabilities to various materials, including metals, plastics, glass-filled composites, and ceramics. This versatility makes it suitable for multiple industries, including aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, industrial engraving, and electronics.

Workpiece Distortion

HSM reduces the heat in the workpiece, minimizing thermal distortion and stress. This is especially advantageous when machining materials prone to warping or deformation, such as aluminum plates. Due to the low cutting forces, HSM is also very efficient at thin-wall machining, such as thermal fins.

Energy Efficiency

HSM consumes less energy due to increased spindle speeds and lower horsepower, reducing overall energy consumption compared to a lower RPM and higher horsepower spindle. Also, reducing the amount of energy from the shorter machining cycle times can lead to cost savings, particularly in high-volume production environments.

Lower Cutting Forces

HSM uses less force while the tool is machining. This improves accuracy from minimal tool deflection, less tool breakage reduces costs and production interruptions, and less vibration improves quality and surface finishes. Lower cutting forces allows for more creative work holding ideas because you only require a minimal clamping force.

Refrigerated Liquid Chillers

Depending on what spindle you choose, you may need a refrigerated, liquid-cooled spindle to maintain the temperature of the spindle bearing and improve its lifetime. These chillers use a specialized refrigerant, like the coolant used in a car radiator, to optimize the thermal properties and degradation of the coolant over time. In applications requiring Z depth tolerances, a spindle with a liquid chiller is recommended to reduce thermal growth in the spindle as it warms.

Spindle Exchange Program

DATRON offers a unique spindle exchange program to reduce your costs and downtime. All our spindles are constructed with dual ceramic bearings that eventually wear and need to be replaced, typically between 2,000 and 5,000 hours, depending on use and application. Instead of incurring downtime waiting for your spindle to be rebuilt, you can install a refurbished spindle, typically the next day. This saves you the cost of storing a spare spindle at your facility or waiting weeks for your spindle to be rebuilt.

Find Your Solution

DATRON offers six different spindles to meet your specific need or application.
They vary with RPM ranges, collet types, and power output.
Please see the chart below to see what spindle best fits your needs.

	RPM	HP	Max. Shank Dia. / Max Cut Dia. / Collet Type
0.6 kwatt Spindle	6k-60k	0.8	8 / 14 / adapters
1.8 kwatt Spindle	5k-48k	2.5	10 / 20 / HSK 25e
2.0 kwatt neo Spindle	4k-40k	2.7	8 / 14 / adapters
2.0 kwatt Spindle	6k-60k	2.7	8 / 14 / adapters
3.0 kwatt Spindle	1k-40k	4.1	10 / 20 / HSK 25e
4.0 kwatt Spindle	1k-40k	5.4	10 / 20 / HSK 25e
8.0 kwatt Spindle	100-34k	10.9	12 / 24 / HSK 25e

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