Auto clamping head

The stocking and changing station is placed on the workpiece feeder belt of a vertical lathe. To setup the system, the spindle passes with the chuck over the combination of clamping head and end-stop to be changed and it is swapped completely and reliably within seconds by a pneumatic pulse. The workpiece to be clamped is then directly grabbed from the next changing station and clamped. The innovative design demands no additional automation.

This new automation solution is said to be ideal for lower batch sizes or multiple part variants and it can enable operator free production over three shifts.