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MACHINING CASE STUDIES
WFL Millturn supports Brazilian rm’s aerospace work
At Toyo Matic Aerospace in Brazil, a WFL Millturn
M120/3000 mm is helping the company meet
customers’ requests for fl exible, fast and precise
solutions.
Founded in 1987 and focused on the renovation of
machinery and equipment at that time, the company has
progressively broadened its activities, rst due to the lack
of spare parts in the market, by improving its techniques
and skills in machining in order to meet its own needs,
then around 1998 entering the rapidly growing
telecommunications market and, nally, in 2001 the
company secured work in the aerospace sector. Since
then, other segments, such as energy generation and
medical, have been added to its breadth of work.
Located on an 118,000 m site on which is a
10,000 m factory having factory oor space of
6,000 m, an administrative area of 2,000 m and a
leisure/dining area of 2,000 m, Toyo Matic‘s 3-, 4- and
5-axis machining centres, lathes and multi-tasking
machines constitute its eet of machines.
The 70-employee rm supports this manufacturing
hardware with Autocad, Solid Edge, NX (Unigraphics)
and UNICAM for developing programs and projects, and
also boasts Vericut software for programming,
simulating and optimising processes.
Explaining why he chose the WFL (Kyal Machine
Tools, www.is.gd/ohoqud ) multitasking machine and why
especially the M120 Millturn, CEO Edvaldo da Rosa
explains: “I have seen the machine on my customers’
site for the rst time and was very impressed. Not only
because of its versatility, but also because of requests
from my customers, I decided to buy one. Furthermore,
the machine is perfect for manufacturing complex parts
for the aerospace Industry, and the technical data
perfectly ts the production of our customers’
workpieces.” In fact the order for the machine was
prompted by an order from a European aerospace
customer for helicopter rotor parts, he adds.
“The M120 Millturn allows for one-hit machining of
complex work pieces with a length up to 12,000 mm
and swing diameters up to 1,140 mm. We also bought
an M80 Millturn for the manufacture of longer parts and
for making deep holes, especially for workpieces used
in the oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, the oil and
gas industry is not in a very good situation. However, we
are still hoping to receive an order from a customer in
the near future. Perhaps we will use the M80 to
manufacture parts for the aerospace industry as well.
As exibility is one of the machine’s key characteristics,
we can use if for machining a huge range of different
workpieces.”
The company operates 10 multitasking machine
tools including the two WFL units, with just two
operators managing this large eet of high-tech
machinery. Of the bene ts of single-machine, one-hit
machining he says that the prevention of mistakes is a
key advantage. In terms of reliability and service, the
CEO says: “We never had any problems so far. For this
reason, I can’t say anything about the promptness of
WFL services. It has been working in a plug-and-play
mode so far, as no incidents have occurred. Only when
we rst installed the machine we had some alerts for
approximately one to two weeks. However, the WFL
service team acted very fast and we have been
satis ed. That WFL has a service team here in Brazil is
great, of course.”
The WFL M120
at Toyo Matic
Aerospace in
Brazil has a
capacity of
1,140 mm
swing and
12,000 mm
length
36 October 2020 | www.machinery.co.uk | MachineryMagazine | @MachineryTweets
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