Boring Systems Designed to Meet Rigorous Demands of Machining Oil/Gas Parts
Allied Machine & Engineering offers more precision and peace on the shop floor with Wohlhaupter modular boring systems for manufacturers of field
components for the oil/gas industry. Machining parts for this rugged energy sector can include variances in workpiece materials, long cross holes and muscling through difficult applications with precision. To reduce chatter and improve hole quality in tough boring applications, Allied recommends their Wohlhaupter boring systems with
NOVITECH vibration dampening modules.
The Wohlhaupter 320 boring head with NOVI
TECH provides productivity, surface quality, and process reliability in applications that may involve significant material variances or long overhangs greater than 6:1. Mounted inside the patent-pending NOVI
TECH system, the viscoelastically mounted damper modules reduce vibrations when boring diameters ranging from 1.97” – 8.07” (50mm – 205mm), up to 10xD. By combining Wohlhaupter boring tools with the
NOVITECH (“no vibration technology”) module, the inserts
and the machine center’s spindle achieve longer life. The NOVI
TECH modules are compatible with any machine spindle and feature Wohlhaupter’s MVS connection too, making it simple to use with existing Wohlhaupter components.
Recently, a Wohlhaupter NOVI
TECH boring system provided significant productivity improvements, surface quality, and time savings for
A to Z Machine Company, Inc., a CNC machine shop in Appleton, Wisconsin. A to Z specializes in a wide variety of custom parts including complex components and assemblies for the oil/gas industry and they’d been contracted to manufacture high-pressure, multifunction pumps. Each cast-iron part was to be bored with three holes, each with a 12” depth and a 22” reach. Previous tooling had been running at a slow 0.47 IPM resulting in a lengthy cycle time of 84 minutes per part for this feature, so they reached out to Allied Machine’s field engineer, Mark Fowler based in the area.
Together Fowler and A to Z’s lead manufacturing engineer, Marc Manteufel worked to find the best tools and techniques to reduce both vibrations
and cycle time while maintaining the required finish. Fowler and Manteufel selected the Wohlhaupter 320 boring head with NOVI
TECH vibration damper for the job. With the right tooling and expert teamwork, the cycle time for this feature was reduced by 74 minutes while still achieving the required finish.