info about kafo work center

[LuisVito]

Hi!
I look for someone who can give me information and opinions on the kafo vmc 1100 working center, maybe someone who works there or has worked in the past.
the working center is of 1995 with control fanuc 0m, godmother cv14 from 9000 rpm bt 40, rapid feed in x-y 15mt z 12mt, feed in work 4000 mm/min.

according to you the machine can be used to make aluminum molds and prototypes?

Thank you and good evening. .

 

[endrio1]

hi luisvito apologize if I seemed a little rude but that wasn't my intention.I'd better explain what I wanted to say.
I have a kafo vmc1100 as your only of 2003 and with fanuc 18m.
from what is my experience with this machine I can tell you that it has never made me mad.After about 6 years of work it already begins to give some precision problem since the guides are in twists and for what concerns the speed it has never been a lightning because the problem is not so much that advance you can reach but what you can maintain especially in the circular interpolations where the advance suffers a drastic calophiles.
another problem could be for you the capacity of the memory buffer perhé I imagine that you work remotely if you don't have a data server, well if it is so I can tell you that in the 0m that I mounted on an'awea a little older than yours the few times I worked remotely I had the problem that the blocks transmitted to the machine were too few compared to those performed with consequent pauses and jumps of the tool.
I work flanges and so for me the machine is fine even so but if I had to buy it to make molds I would think twice.
If you have anything else to ask me about the lady go ahead.
Hi... .

 

[LuisVito]

Hey! Thank you for answering me! the car is what it is but unfortunately the money is few:frown:
I imagine it's no idea for the molds but at least I hope something can do.
I would be happy if the machine worked at least 1600-2000 of feed at work without so many jumps. Is it possible for you?

 

[endrio1]

hello sincerely I am not very confident not so much on the speed you can get but rather on the quality of the result.culous if I allow myself but you already have other centers with fanuc? and with other controls? I ask you this because I have friends who work molds and they all have selca that is more suitable for mold processing I also have a machine that mounts selca and I can assure you that the difference is abysmal I tell you this because if you are used to working with controls of this level I am convinced that you will find yourself in serious difficulty because you intend to fanuc is a good simple reliable control but to make you a trivial example is like a car to be missing or try to improve it or you keep it that way. internet helps a lot because many optionals are on the net but where there is need of the hardware you are screwed so it is all better but when you have to move fanuc are pains for the wallet.
Why don't you give yourself a try? Or why don't you get your car tested for a while?
You know the crisis is for us, but even the sellers don't throw at all well.
They left me a lathe on trial for three months to sell it.
so see also how much confidence they have in their product.

 

[LuisVito]

I have a mori-seiki and 2 haas all fanuc. the oldest one is a haas vce 500 of 1995 and we use it to make small molds, it is not very fast, it travels on the 1500s of feeds with a little effort but cmq does a good job.the data is transmitted through serial port and the path tools are calculated according to the limits of the machine example: coarse in parallel and never in spiral as well as finishes, braking and acceleration on edges automatically performed by the cam program:redface: