EPX-SF Offering Industry 4.0 connectivity and artificial intelligence-assisted guidance, this 11-axis Anca stream finishing machine can operate lights-out and achieve nano-smooth surfaces and micron-honed edges. With its Advanced Cyclic Mode, users can adjust angles, optimize chip flow and address surface burrs. Materials it can handle include aluminium alloys, tungsten carbide, cobalt-based alloys, stainless steel, tool steels and ceramics. The machine is ideal for dealing with tooling for high-precision plastic molding applications.
What’s new? The machine, which debuted in the spring at GrindingHub in Stuttgart, Germany.
Benefits Precise, repeatable and controllable edge preparation and improved surface quality, leading to increased edge strength and refined tool micro-topography. The EPX-SF can process up to 1,900 tools in 24 hours while achieving nano-smooth surfaces. The machine can make precise, clean, consistent cuts in a single pass, and its high-quality performance eliminates the need for extensive post-processing. Edge preparation improves the resilience of the tooling treated in the machine, optimizing the cycle times of the tooling, as well as enhancing its reliability.
Anca Inc., Wixom, Mich., 248-926-4466, https://machines.anca.com
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
