Mag Ias Gmbh

Dodwell Manoharan

Walter Pompe

Ralph Davis

Hubert Bruder

Walter Muehleis

Guido Jentzsch

Martin Schmid

Sebastian Schoening

Sebastian SCHÖNING

Walter MÜHLEIS

A workpiece clamping apparatus for a machine tool is proposed, including at least one receptacle for a workpiece, wherein the at least one receptacle includes a wall and an opening via which the workpiece is insertable into the receptacle in a linear direction and removable therefrom in a counter-direction, a clamping device for fixing the workpiece at the at least one receptacle, a first access area via which a first tool engages the workpiece for a first working operation, a counter-bearing for the first tool, and a second access area via which a second tool engages the workpiece for a second working operation, wherein the first working operation and the second working operation are performed at different locations on the workpiece using different tools and wherein the workpiece clamping apparatus is free of a counter-bearing for the second tool.

Workpiece clamping apparatus, machine tool and method for working a workpiece

A method is proposed for controlling tool change operations on a machine tool, wherein a machining procedure on a workpiece includes a sequence of machining operations having in each case a particular tool and in each case a particular duration, and for a tool change, tools of a tool spindle are provided by a second storage device in communication with a first storage device, and wherein there is associated with the machining procedure a sequence of tool provision operations in which a tool provision operation has in each case a particular duration, wherein the method includes a determination stage wherein the durations of the machining operations and the tool provision operations are determined, and a control stage wherein the tool provision operations are temporally grouped in relation to the machining operations such that the tool provision operations bring about a minimized idle time in the machining procedure.

Method for controlling tool change operations and machine tool

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Dodwell Manoharan