The machine design begins with a unique axis configuration – featuring no overhangs – and incorporates large castings that provide a robust cutting platform. It then integrates 8 mm fine-pitch ballscrews and 0.05-micron scale feedback, as standard equipment, enabling the F5 machine to deliver superior precision. Together, these features reduce variability during hours of continuous, tight-tolerance machining. The F5 offers positioning accuracies within ±0.0015 mm and repeatability of ±0.001 mm.

Included in the standard configuration of the F5 machine is a highly productive 20,000 rpm HSK-A63 spindle, which incorporates Makino’s core-cooling, under-race, and jacket spindle temperature control system. The two-range spindle supplies unique, wide-range capability, delivering stiffness and rigidity at lower ranges for roughing operations, and vibration- and chatter-free production of small details and fine features when utilising small tools at high rpm.

The F5 utilises the Makino Professional 6 control, which affords the perfect blend of a Windows 7 operating system’s graphical user interface (GUI), touch-screen selection offering instant access to information literally at your fingertips, user-friendly, efficient PC-like capability for data management and editing, and the networking and storage capability of a data centre.

Also featured in the F5 is Makino’s proprietary, next-generation Super Geometric Intelligence (SGI.5) software – developed specifically for high-feedrate, tight-tolerance machining of complex, 3D contoured shapes involving continuous tiny blocks of NC data – which ensures production rates faster than standard CNC systems while maintaining high accuracy. SGI.5 helps to deliver the lowest cycle times and costs achievable by reducing machining cycle times on dies, complex cavities and cores, and medical parts.

The machine delivers positioning accuracies and repeatability in the microns; the spindle ensures capability to address a wide variety of tooling and machining applications; and SGI.5 provides unsurpassed accuracy and speed in tough, challenging, complex geometries. This platform is an ideal choice for shops looking to achieve top-shelf machining performance and superior results at a reasonable investment – a true value proposition.

Standard Features:

• 20,000 rpm HSK-A63 spindle
• Scale feedback for X-, Y- and Z-axes
• Ballscrew core cooling
• Thirty (30)-tool magazine
• ATC shutter
• Automatic air blow
• Nozzle coolant
• Rear coolant tank with chip augers
• Professional 6 control
• Super Geometric Intelligence Control (SGI.5)
• Rigid tapping
• Centralised auto grease
• Fully enclosed splash guard
• Fixed manual pulse generator
• Air dryer