Asquith Butler announces Open House

A UK manufacturer of large-capacity machine tools — Asquith Butler — has announced that its next Open House exhibition will take place in Brighouse 4-6 December (9am until 4pm each day). Visitors to the company’s manufacturing facility and technical centre will be able to see — for the first time — a new compensation system for volumetric positioning accuracy that was developed for use on large machine tools by the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Precision Technology (in close collaboration with Asquith Butler).

The system will be demonstrated at the show integrated into an Asquith Butler Power Centre-500 MT travelling-column, horizontal-spindle, mill-turn machining centre; this has a work envelope of 8 x 2 x 1.5m, a 30-tonne capacity, and a 3m-diameter turning and positioning table. The compensation system is claimed to reduce geometric errors by up to 90% over the entire working volume, despite the machine having already been produced to very tight tolerances.

The Open House will also provide a first opportunity to see in action Asquith Butler’s Star Turn-VTG (vertical turning gantry). In addition to live cutting demonstrations on new equipment, there will be used machines on show, including a 5m Butler Elgamill HE that is currently undergoing a comprehensive electrical and mechanical refurbishment and CNC retrofit. Key equipment suppliers co-exhibiting will be Fanuc, Siemens, Heidenhain, Renishaw, Sandvik, Cytec Systems and CNC Rotary.

Anyone wishing to attend should contact managing director Paul Hinchliffe (e-mail: phinchliffe@asquithbutler.com . . . Tel: 01484 726620).