You really want to give a 3 axis robot ago with a wide long conveyor belt. As you can do most things if all the tooling has conventional ejector frames, a 6 axis robot is just not needed like in a car industrial assembly line. It would speed up the de-moulding time by 5 times and then you can program the robot to stack the parts on the conveyor belt and if you need rotation other than the standard wrist on a 3 axis robot you can add an extra rotate cylinders for 90 and 180 degrees rotation or a motor drive for any axis on the head. Once you try it you will not go back, as you can just increase the size of the conveyor to run a machine 48 hours if required. This is if you have the space of course, but if you have I'd try one even if it's an older pneumatic one.
@@DragonflyEngineering If you do get one, I would recommend a ATM robot, the palletising is easy, you have like 9 settings on one page for height,width,depth,etc, it's very easy to program compared to say a Wittmann, Sepro or Star, with them robots you keep a master program and modify it to suit but an ATM (Automatic Timing Machine Co) robot you can write a program from scratch as it's very intuitive, as it uses pictures for your i/o's. Just get one with a touch screen pendant, the older type (touch screen) are bigger and easier to use the touch screen, it's faster to write with, but heavy, but the new ones use a generic touch screen with it's own software which works but the screen is 40% smaller, but it 50% lighter but I like the old ones, but they are 20 years old. But if you can even get them over your side of the world, they are worth a look. The older ATM robots before the touchscreens are a nightmare in comparison if you do look out for one. All the best.
Your obviously a very clever man much smarter then I ever could wish to be. But I have 1 question why Hass to me their garbage and i personally would not give any shop work that use Haas
You are not a smart man. You said it yourself. Haas are just fine. They are deployed far more than any other machine brand on the planet, they get a bad rep from low information people such as yourself spreading superstition.
Hi Chris, the biggest factor is cost to enter 5 axis milling...Yes, In the past, 12 years ago, I had to get ridd of a new Haas VM2 mill due to the spindle being thermally unstable and would change height during my long run mold surface mill cut. This 2019 5 axis mill is really good so far. It holds less than 0.001" blend from side mill to top mill. 3 axis drift is ~0.0001" so far. So I changed my mind for this mill, not sure about their other mills but they may have fixed their spindle problems from the past. Thanks for watching!
@@DragonflyEngineering thermal compensation wasnt a problem with the spindle it was a feature that didnt exist in the software. which it does now, just like a dmg. :)
@@DragonflyEngineering I can’t disagree with that…spent 30 years on the APPS started @ Mazak worked for Deckel Maho now DMG Amongst others all 🇬🇧 based..Been in thousands of companies ranging from 5 machines to literally 100s in all shapes and sizes..The Amount of Horror stories I can tell you about Haas is terrifying…I wish you all the luck in the world with that UMC I can’t think of anyone who deserves it more…
@@DieselRamcharger the problem I had was a bad bearing that would get itself into a chatter 5 hours into a 10k rpm run, so it would get hotter for about 1/2 hour, then fix itself then cool down again. The machine had thermal comp and I would let it spin for 45 minutes before I start the cut
Hey i am from india and i work in plastic moulding company. You make amazing video a lot things to learn from your video
You really want to give a 3 axis robot ago with a wide long conveyor belt. As you can do most things if all the tooling has conventional ejector frames, a 6 axis robot is just not needed like in a car industrial assembly line. It would speed up the de-moulding time by 5 times and then you can program the robot to stack the parts on the conveyor belt and if you need rotation other than the standard wrist on a 3 axis robot you can add an extra rotate cylinders for 90 and 180 degrees rotation or a motor drive for any axis on the head. Once you try it you will not go back, as you can just increase the size of the conveyor to run a machine 48 hours if required. This is if you have the space of course, but if you have I'd try one even if it's an older pneumatic one.
OK thanks for the tip, I will try one out one of these days. The 6 axis is just too easy to setup
@@DragonflyEngineering If you do get one, I would recommend a ATM robot, the palletising is easy, you have like 9 settings on one page for height,width,depth,etc, it's very easy to program compared to say a Wittmann, Sepro or Star, with them robots you keep a master program and modify it to suit but an ATM (Automatic Timing Machine Co) robot you can write a program from scratch as it's very intuitive, as it uses pictures for your i/o's. Just get one with a touch screen pendant, the older type (touch screen) are bigger and easier to use the touch screen, it's faster to write with, but heavy, but the new ones use a generic touch screen with it's own software which works but the screen is 40% smaller, but it 50% lighter but I like the old ones, but they are 20 years old. But if you can even get them over your side of the world, they are worth a look. The older ATM robots before the touchscreens are a nightmare in comparison if you do look out for one. All the best.
On the model trains - do you know there are self unloading model wagons? In case you don't want to bag your parts and just unload them.
nice feature. Thanks for watching!
"Reel", innit? Anyway, real interesting, thanks.
Thanks! I fixed my typo. Thanks for watching!
Your obviously a very clever man much smarter then I ever could wish to be. But I have 1 question why Hass to me their garbage and i personally would not give any shop work that use Haas
You are not a smart man. You said it yourself. Haas are just fine. They are deployed far more than any other machine brand on the planet, they get a bad rep from low information people such as yourself spreading superstition.
Hi Chris, the biggest factor is cost to enter 5 axis milling...Yes, In the past, 12 years ago, I had to get ridd of a new Haas VM2 mill due to the spindle being thermally unstable and would change height during my long run mold surface mill cut. This 2019 5 axis mill is really good so far. It holds less than 0.001" blend from side mill to top mill. 3 axis drift is ~0.0001" so far. So I changed my mind for this mill, not sure about their other mills but they may have fixed their spindle problems from the past. Thanks for watching!
@@DragonflyEngineering thermal compensation wasnt a problem with the spindle it was a feature that didnt exist in the software. which it does now, just like a dmg. :)
@@DragonflyEngineering I can’t disagree with that…spent 30 years on the APPS started @ Mazak worked for Deckel Maho now DMG Amongst others all 🇬🇧 based..Been in thousands of companies ranging from 5 machines to literally 100s in all shapes and sizes..The Amount of Horror stories I can tell you about Haas is terrifying…I wish you all the luck in the world with that UMC I can’t think of anyone who deserves it more…
@@DieselRamcharger the problem I had was a bad bearing that would get itself into a chatter 5 hours into a 10k rpm run, so it would get hotter for about 1/2 hour, then fix itself then cool down again. The machine had thermal comp and I would let it spin for 45 minutes before I start the cut