The medical sector is a rapidly-growing manufacturing industry that places special requirements on materials and equipment. The majority of the broad range of products used by this industry, such as surgical instruments and orthopedic implants are made from extremely hard materials. Manufacturers interested in reliably cutting these materials and distinguishing themselves from the steep competition to gain a reputation as a strong supplier need to offer a very high level of component quality – all while keeping production times as short as possible.
Maximum speed, precision, and flexibility – high-speed cutting offers users in the medical sector decisive advantages as compared to conventional milling methods. High spindle RPMs and cutting speeds enable short machining times and excellent surface qualities. Both of these are important factors for prosthetics and orthotics.
hyperMILL® offers efficient and easy-to-program HSC strategies for 2.5D, 3D, and 5-axis machining in prototype and series manufacturing. High-performance cutting removes the material particularly quickly in a way that is tool-friendly, even when handling difficult-to-machine materials such as titanium and stainless steel alloys.
HPC roughing
Trochoidal toolpaths are ideally suited for efficiently roughing medical components in a tool-friendly way, even when handling materials that are difficult to machine, such as titanium and stainless steel alloys.
Equidistant finishing
3D equidistant finishing makes it possible to machine surface formations with a uniform 3D face infeed. Uninterrupted cutting without any retraction results in very high surface qualities. This finishing strategy is especially well-suited for high-speed cutting.
5-axis swarf cutting
Slightly curved surfaces such as those on bone plates can be swarf-cut with wide path distances. This significantly reduces machining time and guarantees a greatly improved workpiece surface.
MILL-TURN Machining
hyperMILL® MILL-TURN Machining offers a comprehensive package for millturn machining for the majority of rotationally symmetrical components used in medical engineering. All common turning operations as well as special strategies such as rollFEED® Turning and 3-axis simultaneous turning are thereby placed in an operating environment with the milling strategies and can be freely combined with these.
Rotationally symmetrical components are frequently used in medical engineering. For this reason, numerous implants and special surgical tools are perfect for millturn machining. To ensure efficient manufacturing of these types of parts, hyperMILL® MILL-TURN Machining offers a comprehensive package that combines all milling, turning, and drilling operations in a single user interface.
