Flexible manufacturing modules with a vertical spindle axis for milling-drilling-boring work

Flexible manufacturing modules (FMMs) with a vertical spindle axis form part of a new standardized range of equipment with rectangular-travel tables 630, 800 and 1000 mm wide. Designed by the Ulyanovsk GSKBFS Design Office, they are now in production at the Ulyanovsk Heavy and Special-Purpose Machine Tool Combine and the Voronezh Machine Tool Works. Vertical-spindle FMMs are most effective when used for machining Vee and plane components (strips, covers, plates, levers, connecting-rods, brackets, dies, etc.) and also housings and bases. For machining, the work is clamped on a pallet table (PT). The authors consider the design of a typical vertical-spindle FMM.