World premiere Breton at Bi-Mu: Ultrix 1200 EVO

Breton sets again the new technological edge in the vertical machining centres with its new 5-axis rotary-tilting machine, the biggest in the market.

Making its first world public appearance at the Bimu 2016 (Milan, Italy), the Breton Ultrix 1200 EVO is an high-end technological five interpolated axes multitasking machining centre, designed to achieve the highest performance in heavy milling and turning of tough materials such as special alloys, and titanium.

It guarantees high working flexibility, power, big working envelope, reduce footprint and the dynamics of a compact machine. 

Breton Ultrix 1200 Evo





Ultrix 1200 EVO is made for machining 3D shapes that require milling, drilling, turning and grinding. Operations that make it a suitable product for many sectors: from the aerospace industry to mould production and energy.

The advantage of this machine is that it can make complete parts, reducing the need for different configurations and positioning to a minimum, thereby ensuring quality and accuracy that is well above average.

The machine’s notably solid structure has a base onto which the gantry movement guides are fixed, while the automatic magazine is in a specially designed cavity on the left column.

Following Breton’s tradition, the material used for the structure of Ultrix 1200 is Metalquartz®, a polymeric resin that fills the machine structure to reach impressive rigidity and unequalled vibration damping capacity. 

These characteristics then grant high machining quality, top finishing levels and a longer tool life.

The GANTRY is made of electrowelded normalised steel and moves along the top of the two columns thanks to high-precision roller guides.

Two digital brushless AC motors drive its movement. Linear optical encoders with micrometric resolution, positioned on both sides, detect the bridge’s position.

The RAM is anchored to the front of the bridge and is also made of normalised steel. The RAM runs on the bridge, driven by a system of ball bearings and a preloaded double lead screw nut.

All powered by a brushless motor. Also in this case, the accuracy is ensured by Heidenhain optical encoders with micrometric resolution.

At the bottom of the RAM, near the motor spindle, there is a three-axis accelerometer sensor, which is very useful for monitoring the tool balancing during machining. 

This highly accurate system, with its software suite to establish the monitoring and intervention thresholds, reduces damage due to accidental collision, even during manual operations.

The TURNING TABLE tilts from -120° to +120°, and is driven by a direct drive motor.







It is hardly necessary to mention that each unit and bearing is kept at a completely stable temperature by a dedicated chiller and is controlled by high-resolution direct encoders.

Key points of the Ultrix 1200 EVO:

•  Travels: 1700x1600x1000 mm

• Easy operator access to the work table thanks to wide front door openings.

• Dedicated turning tool.

• Accessory management (additional heads, special tools, turning heads with transmission etc.) in the machine’s dedicated internal magazine, with automatic tool change.

• Tilting table available with dual Direct Drive or Dual Drive A axis with play recovery and max torques of up to 9000Nm.

• Milling/turning table with torques of 2000 to 5000Nm, max speed 450rpm.

• Heavy Duty HD version available with milling motor spindle with torques of up to 900 Nm and maximum speed of 14000rpm. 
Thanks to its high rotation speed, this solution allows significant roughing and excellent finishing of the workpieces, without changing machining centre.

• Symmetrical structures to reduce the impact of thermal expansion to a minimum.

• Base filled with Metalquartz® Breton ensures vibration damping and thermal stability.

For more info about NEW vertical machining center  Breton Ultrix 1200 EVO write at mail@breton.it.

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Innovation and quality for aerospace applications by Breton

Aerospace, the industry continuously searching for innovative materials offering better performance and always looking for micrometrical accuracies.

Piaggio Aero Avanti Evo



An  industry that needs someone who can promptly develop cutting edge production solutions which could be both competitive and immediately reliable.

That's why many major Aerospace players selected Breton as a partner, the Italian company manufacturing high-speed machining centres: continuous research and innovation are in its DNA.

From the most affordable machine configurations up to the large and complex automated manufacturing systems, Breton is always focused in providing its customers with the best ‘Return Of Investment’ solutions.



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At their engineering and manufacturing headquarter in Northern Italy as well as in the other 6 service centers worldwide, a dedicated staff of experts is performing preventive part and process analysis in order to determine the most effective and efficient way of producing aerospace parts using a very wide mix of technologies including turning, milling, grinding or in-process probing.

Breton competences are ranging from the lightest composite materials up to the toughest special alloys and,doesn’t really matter if the application is around an aero-engine part or a large structure, their vertical gantries provide an answer even to the most specific demands.

HIGH DYNAMICS

There are multiple advantages offered by the architecture of the Breton machines (vertical trunnion tables, large overhead gantries and moving portals) such as reduced footprint, greater  and comfortable accessibility, very high dynamics, thermo-symmetry and thermal stability combined to a user-friendly programming and a low maintenance requirement.

These benefits become even more evident when a single machine is capable of performing more than one task simultaneously in a perfect multitasking approach, a concept in which Breton is well-experienced.

As an example, in its ceaseless research for innovation, Breton has recently introduced two revolutionary technologies that open up new horizons for the machining of aero-applications.

COUNTERSINKING

The heart of one of these is a machining head that can drill and countersink not only faster but also more precisely than ever before. It can be installed on a variety of 5-axis machining centres, such as those of the Breton Matrix and Breton Eagle families.

No special programing is required since automatically 3 accurate probes around the cutting tool come into contact with the surface of the workpiece to detect the real position in the space, directly adjusting the perpendicular direction to the surface and measuring the exact countersinking depth.

All in one shot. It's a unique solution, which has already been adopted by various aerostructure manufacturers who now supply components with a higher degree of accuracy in much faster lead times.

ULTRASONIC CUTTING

Another exciting innovation focuses on the accessories Breton has developed for ultrasonic cutting, ideal for machining core materials with aramid and aluminum honeycomb, for structural components which must be lighter than ever while maintaining their structural rigidity, produced at incredible speed.

Both technologies are automatically managed and are interchangeable with other conventional rotary cutting tools, performing a series of operations with just one machine thus reducing investments, production costs and times, while guaranteeing greater accuracy and more efficient productivity.

INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

Considering the important existing order backlog in several aerospace programs, the rump-up stage of many others and the extremely positive outlook for the future of the air transportation, there is no doubt that most of the international aerospace players need to increase productivity and be prepared for incoming growing demand.

In such a context  the selection of a reliable and dependable machine tool partner is becoming more and more important every day. If you need a robust supplier granting stability and innovation for the years ahead, Breton is the one.

BRETON MACHINE TOOLS DEPARTMENT

For more information write to mail@breton.it.

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