{"id":3656,"date":"2019-11-20T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwr.de\/?post_type=success-story&p=3656"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:08:50","slug":"satisfied-and-confident-success-with-8-clamping-points","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/erfolgsberichte\/satisfied-and-confident-success-with-8-clamping-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Successfully holding thin-walled parts with 8 clamping points"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Based in the German city of Pegnitz, KSB Aktiengesellschaft is a leading supplier of pumps, valves and related services. The company employs 1,600 employees to research, design and manufacture ultra-modern pump technology and industrial\/power plant valves. The plant also has its own foundry. Recently, the company adopted INO<\/strong>Flex\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> chucks combined with INO<\/strong>Zet\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> pendulum bridge chucks to improve workholding on its shop floor.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Modern manufacturing increasingly involves machining parts with thinner walls and asymmetrical geometries. These trends have simultaneously impacted machining operations at KSB.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe clamp a lot of thin-walled parts, as well as even misshapen, non-symmetrical ones\u201d, says Heribert Sier, Head of the Valve Factory Shop. \u201cWe used to deal with this using a traditional 4-jaw chuck or 3-jaw chuck.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately, high clamping pressures and a lack of compensation can lead to substantial deformation of thin-walled parts. KSB holds itself to exacting requirements for machining quality and precision, which caused workpiece clamping to become a significant challenge. To maintain its standards, setup times grew in line with part complexity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

THE COMBINATION OF INO<\/strong>Flex\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> AND INO<\/strong>Zet\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> REDUCES SET-UP TIMES<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When researching potential solutions to KSB\u2019s workholding challenges, Mr. Sier came across HWR, which proved to be a perfect match. To reduce set-up times, KSB now uses the compensating, centrically clamping INO<\/strong>Flex\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> 4-jaw chuck. The patented chuck compensation prevents the application of unacceptable levels of force at clamping points. Additionally, rather than settle for four clamping jaws, the KSB also applies INO<\/strong>Zet\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> pendulum bridges, which double the number of clamping jaws to eight. The pendulum bridges also ensure compensating clamping.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe are delighted with the INO<\/strong>Flex\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> and INO<\/strong>Zet\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> combination\u201d, says Mr. Sier. \u201cAs we have 8 clamping points, instead of the usual 3, and the integrated compensation, we can direct the clamping pressure more evenly and with less deformation to the component.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

RAPID AND PRECISE HANDLING<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The combined automatic compensation of the two clamping devices ensures simpler handling and, in particular, shorter set-up times. This has been enormously beneficial in the case of thin-walled workpieces.<\/p>\r\n

KSP did not require special clamping jaws, as INO<\/strong>Zet\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> covers the entire clamping range with its default product range. Furthermore, asymmetrical workpieces pose no problems since the patented compensation of the INO<\/strong>Flex\u00ae<\/sup><\/span> clamping chuck also centrically clamps any misshapen parts.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe are very impressed by the chuck and highly delighted with it\u201d, explains Mr. Sier.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6019,"template":"","product-category":[9],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success-story\/3656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success-story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/success-story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwr-usa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-category?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}