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Productive Machines

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Cut costs, save time and improve machine tool productivity. Optimise milling machine spindle speed and feed rates using our expert service. Simply upload your data and CAM file, and we will return it with improved settings. See an improvement or receive a refund.

Select from our range of deliverables:

  • Cutting Force prediction for new milling operations
  • Feed-rate optimization
  • Chatter stability optimization
  • Machine tool predictive maintenance

Best part, faster, first time

Your benefits

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    The best part..

    Predict, up front, the best machining feed-rates and spindle speeds based on your priorities: machine cycle time, cutting tool wear, surface finish requirement, energy consumption per part.

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    ..faster..

    Use our digital twin to establish the maximum, safe spindle speeds and feed-rates to machine the workpiece to your specification.

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    …first time

    Avoid the time, waste and expense of iterations on machine tools. Our digital twin can optimise machine settings in a virtual environment and deliver results straight to your CAM team for final approval.

Main features

    • Force prediction - full toolpath

      • Highlights
        For new, untested milling operations, or for production issue diagnosis:

        • Includes reports with prediction of cutting forces, torque and power
        • Plotted by time, cutting distance, or as a heat map on the CAD file
        • 3 day turnround
        • Available for Siemens NX CAM files as standard.
        • Other CAM packages can be accepted with longer turnround


        Benefits
        For specialists in developing machining settings:

        • Avoid the requirement for expensive dynamometers and physical test environment
        • Applicable to a whole tool-path, not just a single cutting condition

    • Milling feed-rate optimisation

      • Highlights
        Relevant to any milling operation:

        • Modulate the forces on the cutting tool by adjusting feed-rate
        • Receive a new tool-path file; validate by re-running the new settings through your CAM program
        • Includes reports with prediction of cutting forces, torque and power
        • Plotted by time, cutting distance, or as a heat map on the CAD file
        • 3 day turnround
        • Available for Siemens NX CAM files as standard.
        • Other CAM packages can be accepted with longer turnround


        Benefits
        For manufacturing engineering teams:

        • Go straight to optimum feed-rates, avoiding trial and error
        • Reduce milling cycle time up to 50%
        • Reduce the risk of cutting tool breakage
        • Increase cutting tool life

    • Milling chatter vibration optimisation

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        Relevant to any milling operation:

        • Drive machine tools at the maximum safe spindle speed, avoiding chatter vibrations
        • Modulate the forces applied to the workpiece by adjusting feed-rate and spindle speeds
        • Includes reports with prediction of cutting forces, torque, power and tool deflection
        • Plotted by time, cutting distance, or as a heat map on the CAD file
        • Includes a stability map to determine the risk and intensity of chatter vibration at all spindle speeds
        • 5 day turnround
        • Available for Siemens NX CAM files as standard


        Benefits

        • Reduce milling cycle-time up to 50%
        • Forecast tool deflection to ensure dimensional tolerance is maintained
        • Ensure surface finish is free of chatter vibration marks
        • Improve cutting tool life
        • Reduce spindle bearing wear
        • Reduce post process inspection requirements


        Note: will require a simple machine tool test for the Frequency Response Function of each cutting tool. Training and site visits available on request.

    • Machine tool predictive maintenance

      • Highlights
        Relevant to any milling machine tool

        • Periodically test your machine to verify the dynamic response
        • Receive equipment, training, software and upload link for us to analyse the results


        Benefits

        • Receive early warning alerts for spindle bearing wear or other vibration related operational issue.


        Note: will require a simple machine tool test for the Frequency Response Function (FRF) of each cutting tool. Training and site visits available on request.

    • Frequency Response Function (FRF) testing and training

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        Used to calibrate chatter vibration optimisation and machine tool predictive maintenance

        • Obtain the unique FRF for each cutting tool installed in a machine tool
        • Receive equipment, training, software and upload link for you to check all new cutting tools us for us to analyse the results


        Benefits
        For manufacturing engineering teams

        • Enable our milling chatter vibration optimisation service
        • Enable our machine tool predictive maintenance service

Pricing

    Individual Product Demo
    • Meet one of our toolpath optimisation experts online, discuss your requirements and learn how our service offering works.
    • billed monthly
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    • person unlimited number Users

    • Edition highlights
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      Meet one of our toolpath optimisation experts online

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      Discuss your requirements with us

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      Learn how our service offering can help improve your business

    On-Demand Toolpath Optimisation
    • Make use of our toolpath optimisations as needed. No base fee, no risk, purely consumption-based pricing.
    • billed monthly
    • Including

    • person unlimited number Users

    • Edition highlights
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      Force prediction - full toolpath (300 € per toolpath analysis - 3 days delivery lead-time)

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      Milling feed-rate optimisation (400 € per toolpath analysis - 3 days delivery lead-time)

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      Milling chatter vibration optimisation (500 € per toolpath analysis - 5 days delivery lead-time)

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      Machine tool predictive maintenance (price upon quotation)

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      Frequency Response Function (FRF) testing (price upon quotation)

Provider information

Productive Machines is a Spin Out company from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in Rotherham UK, with the mission to commercialize 7 years of physics based, machine tool modelling research. It specializes in optimizing milling machine settings, reducing tool wear, reducing machining cycle time and improving surface finish.

It has unique ability to eliminate chatter vibration risk and find the highest power settings for milling operations.

Productive Machines operates a service delivery model, avoiding the need for purchase of software packages and specialist operator training.

Productive Machines can work with any machine tool, cutting tool or material workpiece. It can read Siemens NX files as standard and is in the process of completing links to Powermill and Hypermill.

Rotherham, United Kingdom
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https://productivemachines.co.uk/
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