At roughly twice the price of a vertical machining center, do horizontal machining centers make sound financial sense? Absolutely, according to Scott Baldus, product specialist at Okuma America Corp. The Charlotte, N.C., machine builder offers both VMCs and HMCs, yet, Baldus noted, HMCs provide, on average, more than three times the spindle utilization of VMCs.
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Originally published on CTE: 2016-02-15
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/horizontal-machining-centers-enhanced-capabilities-shorten-payback-periods/
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