Hydrafeed Announces Complete Bar Feed Range

Hydrafeed has been working on expanding its range of conventional bar feeding products and its automated range of component handling products. The barfeed manufacturer now offers a complete range of short magazine bar feeds as well as full-length magazine type coupled with additional automation products for any CNC turning centre. The Multiservo short magazine bar feed is now able to complement the fastest of machine tools to minimise feeding cycles, with features that can remove the bar feed cycle time in some instances.

New methods now enable bars to be loaded, measured and prepared while the machine is working on an already loaded bar, thereby reducing dead time on the lathe to virtually zero. The benefits of this application are most apparent when the Multiservo is fitted to highly productive sliding head or twin-spindle fixed-head machines. The range has been expanded with the Autofeed long-magazine bar-feed set, which will be available with up to 65mm bar capacity by the end of the year.

A new quick-change guide channel means that bar changeovers can now be achieved within the allotted down time parameters of most lean manufacturing facilities. A short magazine bar feed was introduced earlier in 2009 and this has been developed from previous models to include extra features. Hydrafeed customers can now get a constant display of the length of the bar remaining plus linear rails throughout the bar feed on the MV65 model. This policy has been adopted across the complete range of products with research and development remaining an important part of Hydrafeed's business.

The manufacturer is also able to provide special bespoke systems with the most recent of these projects being a support system allowing a propeller shaft manufacturer in the south of England to support duplex material up to 7m long and 150mm in diameter. The project is said to have allowed the Hydrafeed customer to offer improved lead times on products and cut costs.

The company is currently working on a project to feed special shaped extrusion and assisting a medical manufacturer with improving the general automation of its CNC turning centres. The Rota-Rack is one of the latest additions to the Hydrafeed stable. The stand-alone product is designed to safely collect finished components as they come off CNC equipment, providing true lights-out production.

It has been specifically designed to manage large volumes of components where traditional methods of conveying do not adequately protect the parts. Available since March, the Rota-Rack is being used with one customer now using six systems that are all coupled with the Multifeed short-magazine bar feed. This allows the customer to free up staff for other shop-floor tasks while the machines run unmanned.

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