DN Solutions, the world’s third largest manufacturer of high-precision and high-value CNC machine tools and supplier of advanced software, automation and associated technology solutions, recently launched a new, entry-level multi-tasking, mill-turn machine tool range at the
IMTS and
AMB exhibitions held simultaneously in Chicago and Stuttgart last month.
The new DNX 2100 range — the DNX 2100SB and DNX 2100S — is positioned between DN Solutions’ popular and proven sub-spindle Y-axis Puma 2100SY turning centre series, and its already established SMX 2100S/ST series of mill-turn machines, and provides component manufacturers with more integrated machining capabilities than the former with a lower price point than the latter.
The 10in chuck DNX 2100 features two opposing (left and right) built-in 5,000rev/min spindles, a 12,000rev/min B-axis milling head, a 30-tool automatic tool changer (ATC), there is also a 60-tool option, and a Fanuc 0i-TF Plus control.
The machine series enables component manufacturers to machine complex, high-precision parts in one set-up and, with its large ATC, is more productive and flexible than a sub-spindle, Y-axis lathe with driven tooling.
DNX 2100 machines, with their integrated thermal compensation, linear scales — X-axis as standard, and new parts catcher design, will be stocked by Leamington-based
Mills CNC, the sole agent for DN Solutions’ machines in the UK and Ireland, from next year.
Tony Dale, Mills CNC’s CEO, said: “The DNX series is a welcome addition to DN Solutions’ extensive product portfolio that will go down well with UK and Irish component manufacturers. With its integrated tool-changer, customers will be able to bid for and win complex, high-mix/low-volume machining contracts that, up until now, owing to potential tooling/turret limitations of a sub-spindle Y-axis lathe, may not have been economically viable for them to consider in the past. The new ‘futuristic looking’ DNX series fills a gap in the market and provides component manufacturers with access to competitively-priced advanced, multi-tasking mill-turn technology.”