ALLMATIC is shifting gears: a delivery time of just four weeks at the most thanks to intelligent planning

As automation moves in, tombstones are gaining ground. However, even so the number of companies that produce them is still relatively small. In most cases, the tombstone is still a special-purpose solutions that has to be custom-made to meet the specific needs of a given customer. This creates unpleasantly long delivery times. “Enough of that,” said clamping device specialists ALLMATIC who now offers a standardised tombstone portfolio for horizontal machining centres that is available for the customer to use in their production facilities within three to four weeks.

lt only takes three steps to click your way through the online navigator and in just a few minutes, you can put together your ideal tombstone, thanks to the new modular product range with a total of 57 available combinations. “Not only have we reduced delivery times, but we are also the only supplier already adding value when customers visit our website thanks to our innovative online configurator,” explains ALLMATIC CEO Herbert Mayr. For now, they are still a niche player in this segment. However, anyone who knows the name ALLMATIC, knows the high quality and service the Unterthingau team endeavours to provide for their customers.

“Standardizing tombstones propels automation,” says Mayr and thus he and his team are trail blazers. All variations of the ALLMATIC tombstones already meet future requirements thanks to their zero point clamping system. With the 3D data and other technical specifications customers can be sure that the solution they have chosen will match their workpieces and machining centres. The online configurator provides support during the selection process, but it cannot be compared to an online shop. “We wish to reduce the internal processing time, but first and foremost the delivery times for our customers. Being in touch with our customers personally remains high priority for us.” Nevertheless, thanks to the intelligent online tools, it will only take a few minutes, not a few days like before, for you can getan offer for your new tombstone.

At the launch of the configurator, ALLMATIC offers nine different spindles and numerous jaw combinations. This way, raw blanks can be machined using the GRIPP technology, as can rough­ machined workpieces with different clamping widths. Up to 2 workpieces can be clamped on either side; the number and positioning of the clamping sides are determined by each individual customer.

“We took our time to think this through and to develop a modular system with which we can beautifully cover most of the specifications.” What was the brilliant idea that the ALLMATIC developers came up with? This supplier has pre-machined workpieces available that only have to be adjusted to meet individual final specifications. Thus, the company that is based in the Allgäu region in southern Germany is less dependent on their own suppliers and can also offer shorter delivery times for the final product in this segment as well.

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Short setup times, great high flexibility for machining from 5 sides

With its TeleCentric, the clamping device specialist ALLMATIC-Jakob presents a novel centric 5-axis clamping device with a standard fast attachment bracket system.

Manufacturing and processing plants require a lot of clamping system. On the one hand,
straightforward and fast handling is essential. On the other hand, machine jaws must fixate the work piece securely and with the  minimum amount of vibration. Additionally, the share of 5-axis machines in production halls has been increasing significantly in the last 15 years. With its TeleCentric, the renowned clamping device manufacturer ALLMATIC-Jakob is now presenting a
secure and newly designed solution for clamping on modern 5-axis machines. Both grip clamping as well as conventional clamping are possible.

Raw part on two TeleCentric vices

“The machine vice must not hinder the access of tools and machine spindles to the work piece”, says Herbert Mayr, managing director of ALLMATIC, about the challenge the company faced when the new product was designed. When Rösch and his colleagues designed this new range
of products, they focussed exclusively on centric clamping, hence the name “TeleCentric”. A particular highlight is the telescopic spindle, which features internal and external threads that interlock. This novel design guarantees optimum interference contours with the best possible
accessibility of the machine spindles and the workpiece. Thanks to the centric functionality, there is not zero offset and the material allowance can simply be divided in two because it is fixed symmetrically. Stating the reason for this decision of the designers by saying, the expert says, “The parallel positioning of the workpiece ensures the highest possible clamping accuracy at a maximum loading force of 30 Kilo newton and rather operator-friendly 45 Newton metres at the dynamometric key.” This is the loading force that the TeleCentric brings to the workpiece – thanks to its new lubrication-free telescopic spindle.

Workpiece after machining

Another highlight is that ALLMATIC’s new TeleCentric comes with a standard attachment bracketsystem. No tools are required to adjust the clamping system swiftly to the new workpiece that needs to be machined. Thus, it’s possible to efficiently machine a sixth side by simply changing
a bracket. Of course, the team of developers did not forget larger span widths either. Their
solution? Simply turn the brackets around or provide longer ones.

The TeleCentric meets all requirements that one could have of a machine vice used in today’s 5- axis machining world. With this ALLMATIC product, it doesn’t even take ten seconds to change a pair of brackets, no need for tools, either. Workpieces are placed at a height of 192 millimetres. Even the weight of the TeleCentric is anything but usual: Depending on the model, and without the brackets, it weighs no more than 19.5 kilograms and thus makes it possible to optimize the production process, while guaranteeing great operator convenience in manufacturing plants.

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Jaws with integrated gripper row

ALLMATIC-Jakob added new jaws to our range.

Characteristics of the jaws:

  • For five-sided machining,  ensuring best possible accessibility to the workpiece
  • For rectangular workpieces (sawn material) ≤ 0.5 mm
  • Minimal lost clamping margin of 3 mm.
  • Positive locking through penetration of the centres into the material without preprint
  • Integrated gripper row, thus rigid design to prevent vibrations especially when parts are clamped upright
  • Additional clamping surfaces, ground on both sides
  • Suitable for material strength of up to 1000 N/mm²

The following vices can be equipped with the above mentioned gripper jaws:

  • TITAN 2 K/M/L
  • TITAN SC 125
  • LCH 125

More on the movable and fixed jaws:

Jaw Article Number
Jaw 64 mm, movable with integrated gripper row 6921834036231
Jaw 64 mm, fixed with integrated gripper row 6921834034231

 

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ALLMATIC-Jakob revised portfolio / TC and LC series redesigned

The machine vices of the TC and LC series are part of the renowned product range of the specialist ALLMATIC-Jakob. Maximum precision for workpiece machining, up to eleven pre-settable clamping force levels and high repeatability are the current parameters for this success. Now the experts from Unterthingau are further improving the TC and LC vices and present a uniformly structured complete series under the new label “NC8”.

 

The new product range consists of six models with various jaw widths. The NC8-90 and -125M have location holes with an inside micrometre of 200 mm, which allow the use of the most widely available zero point clamping systems. The models 125, 160 and 200 impress with their bore holes for clamping width extension. Pre-setting of the force can be carried out in seconds on all products without the need for tools. As up to now with the TC, ALLMATIC also grinds the NC8 laterally, which further increases the accuracy of the vices. The new vices are thus ideal for daily use with 3-sided and 4-sided machining. Full compatibility with the current LC / TC models is ensured without additional programming. The NC8 thus offers all essential features at attractive prices. Nevertheless, ALLMATIC guarantees availability of replacement parts for the expiring successful models LC/TC for the next 20 years.

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