The Monarch Machine Tool Company announces the release of a U-Axis head option
on the company's line of vertical machining centers.
This will allow the vertical
machining center to perform many of the turning and grooving operations previously
done on lathes. On parts with multiple diameters, tooling costs are reduced by having
one tool programmable for turning multiple diameters. This tool can perform internal
or external operations. For those operations which would require multiple heads a tool
change mechanism is available for the heads.