At EMO 2011, Tornos presented Cyklos - a new, totally autonomous kind of surface treatment technology that can achieve exceptional levels of quality thanks to its innovative rotary process. At the Simodec show, Tornos not only exhibits the technology but, for the first time, the Cyklos A300 equipment from the Cyklos manufacturer. Better still, this machine will carry out treatments on the stand.
“With the machine on the stand, visitors can see for themselves that integrating a Cyklos machine in a bar turning workshop really is possible without any prior knowledge of surface treatment," states Brice Renggli, Head of Marketing at Tornos.
Long production runs of aluminium parts… This equipment can handle the production of some ten million parts per year. It is primarily aimed at long production runs of those aluminium parts mainly produced in the automotive sector. Brake pistons are one such example of a typical application perfectly suited to the Cyklos A300 which offers great flexibility in anodisation treatment (thickness, parts, etc.). The chemical treatment processes required for each part number is stored in the automatic control system and then chosen according to requirements with less than a 30 minute delay between each part number treated. The buckets must be adapted to the part not only so that they can be correctly held in place during the rotation process, but also to guarantee the uniformity and reproducibility of the treatment.
…and excellent quality results The quality of the treatment is also one of the distinguishing characteristics of the A300 machine. The process implemented by the Cyklos company guarantees a uniformity of treatment of +/-2 microns with no fault in treatment either on the inside or the outside of the part. In classic processes the parts are often immersed vertically and almost statically, so the uniformity of treatment obtained thus often exceeds +/- 5 microns and some internal areas may have faults in (absence of) treatment caused by trapped bubbles of air or gas released during the treatment. The rotary process and the A300 equipment offer many advantages which the specialists at Cyklos invite you to discover at the Tornos stand at Simodec.
Cyklos SA Emmanuel Turlot Rue Galilée 15 CH-1400 Yverdon Mobile: +41 (0) 79 443 78 76 [email protected]
