Technical Reports

High­est demands on machine and tools: High-pre­ci­sion milling of the hard­est spe­cial ceram­ics

Com­pa­ny BCE, 09/25

In addi­tion to met­als, plas­tics and semi­con­duc­tors, almost all tech­ni­cal prod­ucts con­tain an increas­ing pro­por­tion of indus­tri­al ceram­ics. Ceram­ics are char­ac­ter­ized in many areas of appli­ca­tion by their hard­ness and resis­tance to heat and cold, wear and corrosion.

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Increase per­for­mance through
inte­grat­ed mea­sure­ments

Ref­er­ence Report

With improved pro­duc­tion qual­i­ty, reduced error rates and short­er pro­cess­ing times, the NXRSP+ soft­ware deliv­ers impres­sive results. It is now being used as a cus­tomised solu­tion on Röders machines. This was made pos­si­ble by a suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment part­ner­ship between Röders, Ren­ishaw and JANUS Engineering.

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New RPT machines from Röders:
Tol­er­ances halved

03/25

When look­ing at the qual­i­ty of the work­pieces nowa­days achiev­able using high-pre­ci­sion machin­ing cen­tres, one might ask one­self if fur­ther advances could be achieved at all. But Röders want­ed to take on this chal­lenge once again.
“Our many years of appli­ca­tion expe­ri­ence and exten­sive in-house devel­op­ments in design, con­trol and reg­u­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy have giv­en us a very detailed knowl­edge of our machines.”

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High-per­for­mance micromilling of high-hard­ness steels: e.g. for bipo­lar plates 

Work­shop 01/2025

Tools for punch­ing, emboss­ing and form­ing sheet mate­ri­als are very demand­ing. Accu­ra­cies in the range of 1–2 µm are some­times required dur­ing pro­duc­tion. The chal­lenges increase the larg­er the tool and the thin­ner the sheet met­al is. A prime exam­ple of these dif­fi­cul­ties can be expe­ri­enced in the pro­duc­tion of stamp­ing plates for the sheet met­al shells for so-called bipo­lar plates for hydro­gen fuel cells.

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Milling:
Strat­e­gy Milling com­bines old and new for pre­ci­sion den­tal restora­tions
Com­pa­ny Strat­e­gy Milling, 09/2024

The com­pa­ny uses Roed­ers RXD5 and RXD5C mills along with Roed­ers RCS‑1 automa­tion robots and mag­a­zines for auto­mat­ed, lights-out oper­a­tion for up to 72 hours. Much has changed in the den­tal and med­ical indus­tries in recent years, par­tic­u­lar­ly as dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies advance. 

Read arti­cle on www.todaysmedicaldevelopments.com

Tools and mechan­ics: Job shop 
spe­cialis­es in max­i­mum pre­ci­sion

Com­pa­ny Rauch, 06/2024

Ger­hard Rauch Ges.m.b.H. in Tras­dorf (Aus­tria) is a ver­sa­tile man­u­fac­tur­er of mechan­i­cal com­po­nents and assem­blies for the high­est demands. Its cus­tomers come from sec­tors such as mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing, pre­ci­sion engi­neer­ing, aero­space or med­ical technology.

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Mould mak­ing: tur­bo-boost­ing full automa­tion

Com­pa­ny SFS Group Aus­tria, 04/2024

The glob­al­ly active Swiss SFS Group sup­plies numer­ous indus­tries. For qual­i­ty rea­sons, the com­pa­ny relies on its own mould­mak­ing shop for the pro­duc­tion of injec­tion moulds. Here, an inte­grat­ed pro­duc­tion line with milling and die-sink­ing EDM sys­tems, parts clean­ing and high-pre­ci­sion mea­sure­ment was put into operation.

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Sur­face qual­i­ty: 
gloss milling or pol­ish­ing?

Work­shop with com­pa­nies MMC Hart­met­all and Tebis Tech­nis­che Infor­ma­tion­ssys­teme 04/2024

If the high­est sur­face qual­i­ty is required dur­ing milling, addi­tion­al pol­ish­ing is usu­al­ly car­ried out after fin­ish­ing. For typ­i­cal tasks in mould mak­ing, the required time can range from a few hours to sev­er­al days.

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High pre­ci­sion mea­sure­ments from Cima­tron cre­ates a stronger process

Com­pa­ny Alpla Group 07/2023

Qual­i­ty mea­sure­ment in the machine?
 At the Alpla Group in Hard, Aus­tria, the pro­duc­tion process was sig­nif­i­cant­ly short­ened by mov­ing the qual­i­ty mea­sure­ment from a sep­a­rate mea­sur­ing room to the RXP950DSH from Röders. Imme­di­ate­ly after milling, the work­pieces are mea­sured on the machine. The mea­sure­ment dif­fer­ences com­pared to a coor­di­nate mea­sur­ing machine are so mar­gin­al that mea­sur­ing on a coor­di­nate mea­sur­ing machine could be eliminated.

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Accu­ra­cy and best optics high on the agen­da

Effi­cien­cy com­bined with ultra-pre­cise machin­ing

Com­pa­ny Cir­cle 03/2023

What has proven itself in tool and mould mak­ing is also suit­able for every­day use in gen­er­al met­al cut­ting. Espe­cial­ly when,
in addi­tion to good cut­ting per­for­mance, high pre­ci­sion and excel­lent opti­cal qual­i­ty of the parts are required.

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Glass, sil­i­ca glass, ceram­ics…
Ultra-pre­cise machin­ing of brit­tle-hard mate­ri­als

Com­pa­ny Shape­Fab 03/2023

When pro­cess­ing lens­es or oth­er struc­tures made of glass or ceram­ics for appli­ca­tions such as lab­o­ra­to­ry and med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, mea­sur­ing devices or laser tech­nol­o­gy, the “clas­sic” three-pronged tech­nol­o­gy chain of grind­ing, lap­ping and pol­ish­ing using three dif­fer­ent sys­tems dominates.

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Extra large 2000 x 1800 mm with 5 µm stitch­ing gauge: High-pre­ci­sion 3‑axis milling and jig grinding

In many indus­tri­al sec­tors two twinned trends can be observed: cus­tomers ask for com­po­nents with larg­er dimen­sions while at the same time requir­ing enhanced accu­ra­cy and sur­face qual­i­ty. This not only affects tool and mould mak­ing, but also oth­er high-tech appli­ca­tion areas such as mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing, the elec­tron­ics and metrol­o­gy sec­tor, or med­ical technology.

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Hard machin­ing above 58 HRC
replaces die sink­ing EDM
Tool mak­ing: effi­cient lubri­ca­tion
opti­mizes tool life
Com­pa­nies ZF and MHT 10/2022

The per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy of elec­tric dri­ves depend on the nar­row­est pos­si­ble air gap between rotor and sta­tor. The trend towards elec­tri­fied pow­er­trains thus fur­thers high­er demands on the pre­ci­sion of the stamped parts required for this purpose.

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Milling, pen­e­tra­tion EDM, mea­sur­ing and wash­ing

Mold mak­ing: auto­mat­ed cell inte­grates mul­ti­ple tech­nolo­gies
Com­pa­ny Fes­tool 03/2022

In mold and die mak­ing, a pro­found tran­si­tion is tak­ing place. The pre­vi­ous­ly favored jux­ta­po­si­tion of indi­vid­ual machines requir­ing high labor inten­si­ty is grad­u­al­ly replaced by com­plex, ful­ly auto­mat­ed cells with inte­grat­ed han­dling com­bin­ing dif­fer­ent types of equipment.

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Röders GmbH uses the ZEISS XENOS high-end mea­sur­ing device for max­i­mum accu­ra­cy in mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing

From Users For Users: Ahead of every­one else with uncom­pro­mis­ing pre­ci­sion

Com­pa­ny Carl Zeiss Indus­trielle Messtech­nik GmbH 12/2021

In Soltau, Low­er Sax­ony, high­ly pre­cise milling and grind­ing machines are pro­duced in the mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing depart­ment at Röders GmbH. The tol­er­ances here are some­times so small that cus­tomers were argu­ing about mea­sured val­ues again and again.

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Ultra­pre­ci­sion machin­ing of met­als and plas­tics
Lens­es, mir­rors, semi­con­duc­tor tech­nol­o­gy, lasers, pro­to­types …
Com­pa­ny son‑x, 12/2021

For many opti­cal com­po­nents, such as lens­es or mir­rors, the require­ments for the accu­ra­cy of the con­tours and the qual­i­ty of the sur­faces are up to a pow­er of ten more strin­gent than for oth­er micro pro­duc­tion process­es. Frac­tions of a microm­e­ter or sur­face rough­ness val­ues in the sin­gle-dig­it nanome­ter range are required.

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Short-term pro­duc­tion of a fin­ished gear­wheel — Flex­i­ble gear­wheel pro­duc­tion with
high-pre­ci­sion 5‑axis machin­ing centres

The man­u­fac­ture of gear­wheels for machine build­ing appli­ca­tions usu­al­ly involves machines espe­cial­ly designed for the pur­pose. Impor­tant tech­niques include gear hob­bing, gear shap­ing, gear-gen­er­at­ing plan­ning, pro­file milling and pro­file broach­ing. Gen­er­al­ly, spe­cial­ized tools whose geom­e­try is pre­cise­ly adapt­ed to the work-piece are required.

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Ful­ly auto­mat­ic HSC hard machin­ing
Automa­tion in mould mak­ing: milling machine man­u­fac­tur­er as devel­op­ment part­ner
Com­pa­ny Hel­la, 04/2019

Although com­plex injec­tion mould­ing tools are often one-off pieces, sys­tem­at­ic stan­dard­iza­tion of process­es and automa­tion of the machin­ing steps in con­junc­tion with the use of suit­able machines enables ben­e­fits to be achieved relat­ing to both qual­i­ty and costs.

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Milling machines for the high art of mould mak­ing What do pre­ci­sion milling cen­tre­shave to do with mas­cara appli­ca­tors?
Com­pa­ny Zaho­ran­sky Automa­tion & Molds, 08/2017

It is hard to find prod­uct cat­e­gories with aes­thet­ic require­ments that exceed those of the health­care & beau­ty sec­tor. The require­ments that such prod­ucts have to meet encom­pass all rel­e­vant aspects, such as design, colour, sur­face qual­i­ty or look and feel. It goes with­out say­ing that items pro­duced by plas­tic injec­tion mould­ing need moulds that ful­fil com­par­a­tive­ly strin­gent qual­i­ty requirements.

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High­ly pre­cise mul­ti-pur­pose machine for the tool shop­Ma­chin­ing cen­ter for heavy-duty ser­vice in milling and jig grind­ing
Com­pa­ny Fein­tool, 12/2015

Fein­tool is a spe­cial­ist for fine stamp­ing and form­ing of pre­ci­sion sheet met­al parts for var­i­ous indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions with a world-wide rep­u­ta­tion. The top per­for­mances its cus­tomers require can only be achieved if the entire process chain from the press through to the tool, the con­sum­ables and the periph­ery is care­ful­ly designed and opti­mized from one source.

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