Navi Mumbai, April 14th, 2014: Haas Automation is organising a Demo Day at Nashik during May 2014. Visitors to the Haas Factory Outlet - A division of CNCSSIPL, Nashik Demo Day, scheduled for May 7th, 8th and 9th, at the Nashik Engineering Cluster, MIDC Ambad, will have the opportunity to see live cutting demonstrations on two of the company's best selling CNC machine tools: a Haas VF-3 CNC vertical machining centre; and a Haas ST-10Y CNC turning centre.

The Haas ST-10Y is one of the latest-generation, high-productivity machines from the Haas ST range of completely redesigned CNC turning centres. Equipped with C-axis and live tooling, customers can turn and mill complex parts and perform multiple operations in one set-up, increasing throughput, reducing handling and improving accuracy. Like its larger siblings in the ST range, the Haas ST-10Y provides a small-footprint, economical solution but with many full-size, productivity-enhancing features.

The ST-10Y is equipped with a 12-station BOT turret that indexes tools in 0.5 seconds, helping to reduce cycle times. The machine provides a maximum cutting capacity of 228 x 355 mm and boasts 101 mm of Y-axis travel (?50.8 mm from the centreline) for off-centre milling, drilling, and tapping, and comes standard with high-torque live tooling and a servo-driven C axis for versatile 4-axis capability. The ST-10Ys A2-5 spindle nose has a 58 mm spindle bore and a bar capacity of 44 mm. It is equipped with a 165 mm hydraulic 3-jaw chuck. The machine's 11.2 kW vector dual-drive spindle turns to 6000 rpm, and provides 101 Nm of torque at 1300 rpm.

The Haas VF-3 CNC vertical machining centre has travels of 1016 x 508 x 635 mm (xyz), uses a 40 taper spindle driven by a 22.4 kW vector drive motor delivering high torque through to 8100 rpm. The machine boasts a 20-station carousel tool changer and 25.4 m/min rapids.

Haas Automation made its name in the global CNC machine tool industry by building the most affordable, reliable, hardwearing vertical mills the industry had ever seen. True to its roots, the VF-3 is a Haas workhorse and one of the company's best-selling products, globally. It is designed to give years of service in job-shops or production environments, cutting everything and anything from resins to aluminium, cast iron to tool steel.

Like all Haas CNC machine tools, the VF-3 and the ST-10Y are built at the company's one and only factory, in California, USA. A global network of local Haas Factory Outlets (HFOs) supports all Haas products, each one employing factory-trained engineers and stocking official Haas spare parts, ensuring customers' machines are kept running with minimum disruption.

Melita Furtado, Haas Factory Outlet, a Division of Phillips CNC Servicing And Solutions India Pvt Ltd. Email: melitaf@phillipscorp.com