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Tech Update
World’s Largest Metal Spinning Machine for Pressure Vessels
Capable of spinning steel tubes as large as 24-in. dia. by 40 ft. long, with wall thickness to 1.5 in., into pres- sure vessels for the industrial gas and chemical mar- ket, an OSC-24300 metal-spinning machine from MJC Engineering & Technology, Huntington Beach, CA, has been installed at FIBA Technologies, Millbury, MA.
Driven by a 300-hp motor, the machine incorporates a tube-handling system and an automated induction-heat- ing system. It spins tubes with a necking-in and/or bot-
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At the heart of the machine, which measures more than 80 ft. long, are MJC’s proprietary Spin Cad software and a Siemens Sinumerik 840D CNC with HMI software. Spin Cad is a Windows- based operator interface that allows the machine programmer to generate spin passes on a computer using point-and-click technology. All machine functions and editing are controlled and saved through Spin Cad. When the program is complete, Spin Cad generates a G-code program that the CNC uses for part forming.
tom-forming operation performed at each end.
FIBA Technologies manufactures pres- sure vessels, tubes and other industrial equipment for storing and transporting high-pressure and liquefied gases and chemicals. It serves major industrial and specialty-gas and chemical suppliers worldwide, as well as the U.S. govern- ment and industrial-gas distributors throughout the United States. In working with MJC, it sought a machine that could spin the ends of a large steel pipe to fab- ricate unfired, seamless, integrally forged pressure vessels.
MJC Engineering & Technology, Inc.: 714/890-0618; www.mjcengineering.com
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