Kataoka UPG-160 CNC Fully Automatic Piston Ring OD Profile Grinding Machine Successfully Commissioned
UPG-160 is the latest offering from Kataoka Machine Tool Mfg. Co. Ltd. – Japan, to the Piston Ring Industry.
Machine successfully commissioned at a leading piston ring manufacturing facility in India.
- UPG-160 is a 4 Axes CNC Fully Automatic machine for Grinding of Complex Profiles on Piston Ring OD.
- Reduction in number of jigs, setup time, machining costs and incresase in accuracies & productivity due to new and improved design.
- No Profile Templates for Grinding Wheel Dressing required
- Machine equipped with 3 ways of dressing viz:
- Truform Dressing using a Single Point Diamond Dresser
- Truform Dressing using V face Rotary Diamond Roll
- Diamond Crush Roll Dressing
- One side clamping structure for work spindle leading to easy & accurate centering & eliminate centering misalignments.
- 0.8mm rings can be processed with ease
- Max 50 mm stack of rings possible to machine in a single cycle.
Worldwide Piston Ring Manufacturers now prefer UPG-160 due to its high productivity, accuracies, ease of setup and interchangeability of jigs due to improved design.