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Technical Department of Kondia: the soul of its technology
01/07/2002
P60-V2, a challenge to Kondia
Machine tools each time advances quicker steps, customers increasingly demand more benefits, more laps, more progress, less price. It is a constant battle that lidia in the technical department. Kondia is a good example of this.
HM 1060 gantry machining center
Where are the new engines? Where do new technologies come from? Surely of technical departments such as Kondia, where every day, partly hard labour for a demanding market and partly in response to their own commitments provide responses, works to keep leading positions technologically speaking.
Every time customers know more and have more information from very diverse sources, which makes them more demanding. Machine manufacturer must meet all these demands of the market in regards to speed, precision, etc. That said as well, clear sounds easy. However, apart from the obvious technical considerations, Kondia is facing the challenge of addressing areas very diverse, with very different problems. Customers that are directed to the car, the subcontractors, the moldistas, those who work for the sector of medicine and many others, have very specific needs. In this regard a same machine must adapt to different purposes that, surprisingly, a machine designed for threaded or taladrados has different characteristics to another addressed to a complex surface machining.
An increasingly common trend is the manufacture of standard machines but with a customization for each different customer. In addition, this should add the obligation to carry out a specific setting for a particular job.
This is how the Technical Department of Kondia is aimed on the one hand to the development of new products and on the other the up-to-date maintenance of these products in time.
Every time customers know more and have more information from very diverse sources, which makes them more demanding. Machine manufacturer must meet all these demands of the market in regards to speed, precision, etc. That said as well, clear sounds easy. However, apart from the obvious technical considerations, Kondia is facing the challenge of addressing areas very diverse, with very different problems. Customers that are directed to the car, the subcontractors, the moldistas, those who work for the sector of medicine and many others, have very specific needs. In this regard a same machine must adapt to different purposes that, surprisingly, a machine designed for threaded or taladrados has different characteristics to another addressed to a complex surface machining.
An increasingly common trend is the manufacture of standard machines but with a customization for each different customer. In addition, this should add the obligation to carry out a specific setting for a particular job.
This is how the Technical Department of Kondia is aimed on the one hand to the development of new products and on the other the up-to-date maintenance of these products in time.
HM 2010 gantry machining center
Changes in the Technical Department
The needs of the customers are imposing another way of working. The collaboration of the manufacturer of the machine with your client is much higher now than a few years ago. The aim is none other that to understand better its demand and achieve adapt the equipment to which requires each.
I.e. the client attends Kondia with one-piece and explains his need for a team capable of making a certain number of these pieces a year. In a somewhat colloquial tone, is "to get a team, take it to his workshop, plug it and get to produce". In these cases Kondia supplies machine, tool, tools, systems of work.... "When you sell a team of such not are selling a machine but a solution", explains Ramon Alberdi, responsible for the technical department. "I.e. you are not proposing to the client machine, an equipment or a tool, but a solution to your problem." "What Kondia offers is that comprehensive solution, choosing the most suitable machine and everything around him".
This requires greater flexibility to both the Department of mechanical as to the application project.
But we must not forget that Kondia also manufactures machines completely standards.
I.e. the client attends Kondia with one-piece and explains his need for a team capable of making a certain number of these pieces a year. In a somewhat colloquial tone, is "to get a team, take it to his workshop, plug it and get to produce". In these cases Kondia supplies machine, tool, tools, systems of work.... "When you sell a team of such not are selling a machine but a solution", explains Ramon Alberdi, responsible for the technical department. "I.e. you are not proposing to the client machine, an equipment or a tool, but a solution to your problem." "What Kondia offers is that comprehensive solution, choosing the most suitable machine and everything around him".
This requires greater flexibility to both the Department of mechanical as to the application project.
But we must not forget that Kondia also manufactures machines completely standards.
The Department's resources
At this time, Kondia is in a process of migration to systems of three dimensions.
The computerization of the drawing has streamlined many projects and solutions... The current step in the 3D is providing enormous potential. They are complex systems that require a great effort and specific training of the person who is drawing.
Saved this obstacle, the systems in three dimensions provide many advantages, not only from the point of view of the design but also to solve problems of work, parts, mounting, etc. Ramón Alberdi explains that "the advantage is broader, it is an advantage for the company, because they facilitate work of simulation, calculation of masses, machining, Assembly, documentation..." "Therefore we understand that they provide an overall advantage for the company and not only for design".
The computerization of the drawing has streamlined many projects and solutions... The current step in the 3D is providing enormous potential. They are complex systems that require a great effort and specific training of the person who is drawing.
Saved this obstacle, the systems in three dimensions provide many advantages, not only from the point of view of the design but also to solve problems of work, parts, mounting, etc. Ramón Alberdi explains that "the advantage is broader, it is an advantage for the company, because they facilitate work of simulation, calculation of masses, machining, Assembly, documentation..." "Therefore we understand that they provide an overall advantage for the company and not only for design".
A pillar of Kondia
Here new products are designed and look for applications customized to clients. A third function is to maintain a living machine during his life. In other words, a team designed a few years ago is adapting to new techniques and modernized, through the incorporation of new drives, motors or components electronic to different specialists is offering to the market. "We offer machines with the latest technology." "We cannot and we want to offer products designed for years and which have not evolved" said the head of the Department. This is given, on the one hand by the requirements of the customer, but it is also part of the voluntariness of Kondia.
The operation
But, how does all this? Who determines when launching a new product? Innovations are decided by the Board of Directors of Kondia to start from here the Office technique gets to work and develops the machine according to approved specifications.
Another option is that it is the client who wants a specific solution for your needs. Reflected the demand and studies the best possible solution, a work which, depending on the complexity, can last for a few months. The first phase of study of machining and times, is followed by the study of tools and other successive. All of them are subject to the approval of the client.
The third function of the Department, the up-to-date maintenance of the product, is part of the initiative of the technical team, which keeps track of new technologies emerging in the market and of the proposals that get you from the rest of the departments of the enterprise (commercial)(, Production, Posventa…).
Another option is that it is the client who wants a specific solution for your needs. Reflected the demand and studies the best possible solution, a work which, depending on the complexity, can last for a few months. The first phase of study of machining and times, is followed by the study of tools and other successive. All of them are subject to the approval of the client.
The third function of the Department, the up-to-date maintenance of the product, is part of the initiative of the technical team, which keeps track of new technologies emerging in the market and of the proposals that get you from the rest of the departments of the enterprise (commercial)(, Production, Posventa…).
Machining center HS 1000 high speed
P60-V2: the most recent of Kondia
Presented for the first time in the latest edition of the BIEMH (Bilbao, March 2002), the P60-V2 has been a challenge of Kondia. It is a very complex machine whose main objective is accuracy. It is intended to the machining of complex surfaces treated steels. Whole machine has been oriented to the precision. The guidance systems consist of a combination between band of sliding and rolling, something very new.
The entire structure of the machine, bench, gantry, etc., is cooled or heated so that it is stable and is not affected by thermal fluctuations. The objective is to maintain the temperature of the machine at a constant temperature. The spindles are also refrigerated.
The head of the machine reaches 20,000 revolutions. A direct drive which is based on a main shaft powered a motor using direct coupling has been used. It is not an electromandrino.
The electronics that incorporates the machine is very powerful, control Fanuc's latest generation of series 16, engines of advance of axes with 16 million of pulse encoders per lap...
They are the rules of capture, very high precision, which are characterized because they have the same coefficient of thermal expansion than steel. Against the usual rules of glass, which are dilated in a way different to the steel, which have been used on this machine to have this peculiarity, decisive when we are working in a field in which the micra is important.
Whole machine is the result of a profound work looking for accuracy and high speed of complex surfaces of temperate steel machining. The sectors that can potentially take advantage of this machine are very diverse: from manufacturers of arrays of wrought iron, moulds for the injection of plastics, medicine... Finally all those areas that require high precision and all when what works is tempered steel.
The entire structure of the machine, bench, gantry, etc., is cooled or heated so that it is stable and is not affected by thermal fluctuations. The objective is to maintain the temperature of the machine at a constant temperature. The spindles are also refrigerated.
The head of the machine reaches 20,000 revolutions. A direct drive which is based on a main shaft powered a motor using direct coupling has been used. It is not an electromandrino.
The electronics that incorporates the machine is very powerful, control Fanuc's latest generation of series 16, engines of advance of axes with 16 million of pulse encoders per lap...
They are the rules of capture, very high precision, which are characterized because they have the same coefficient of thermal expansion than steel. Against the usual rules of glass, which are dilated in a way different to the steel, which have been used on this machine to have this peculiarity, decisive when we are working in a field in which the micra is important.
Whole machine is the result of a profound work looking for accuracy and high speed of complex surfaces of temperate steel machining. The sectors that can potentially take advantage of this machine are very diverse: from manufacturers of arrays of wrought iron, moulds for the injection of plastics, medicine... Finally all those areas that require high precision and all when what works is tempered steel.
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