AAK Hydraulic Cartridge Valve Production with 5-axis CNC Machine Tool

Luca from Germany left a message on the website of hydraulic cartridge valve
manufacturer AAK last Friday: Can AAK use 5-axis machine tool to produce
valve cage for hydraulic cartridge valves? Luca conveyed 2 questions:
whether AAK has a 5-axis machine tool and the valve cage of the hydraulic
cartridge valve that he needs, is some particular.

It is rare for us to receive this type of messages: using the equipment to
delineate the production of cages for hydraulic cartridge valves. After
communication, it was found that the hydraulic cartridge valves are to be
used in their newly developed manifolds, with high precision requirements
for the valve cage, which cannot exceed 2μm tolerance. In order to help the
hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturer better understand his requirements,
the production equipment was delineated in the inquiry, which posed a great
challenge to the hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturers. The manufacturers
without this equipment will be eliminated in the first round of selection.

I remember that we took a video last year about the production of hydraulic
cartridge valve cages by using DMG 5-axis CNC machine tool. At that time, it
was a customized hydraulic cartridge valve for an Israeli customer. For the
hydraulic cartridge valve with particular requirements for the cage, AAK
used a German DMG 5-axis CNC machine tool. Its stable numerical control
technology and stable accuracy were favored as treasures by our engineers.
The processing speed reaches 20,000 rpm, with 5-axis linkage processing and
equipped with a 30 position tool library. Its driving method is a direct
drive ball screw drive, and all shafts adopt a linear direct measurement
system to ensure that the valve cage processing accuracy is within 2μm.
From the video, we can see that the technician first cleans the fixture with
an air gun, then installs the hydraulic cartridge valve cage blank into the
fixture, and then starts the machine tool. After processing, each valve cage
needs to be measured and checked with a plug gauge. If the accuracy of the
valve cage is qualified, it can be cleaned again with an air gun and then
transferred to the next production process.

After we sent this video to the German customer yesterday, he sent us the
inquiry for a customized hydraulic cartridge valve today, with a very
detailed drawing, which made us feel the rigor and professionalism of German
customers again. How could it be possible for a hydraulic cartridge valve
manufacturer to have no improvements if cooperating with such type of
customers? This is also the benefit for hydraulic cartridge valve
manufacturers working with customers with high quality requirements.

AAK hydraulic cartridge valves, 5-axis equipment is ready for you, you can
also try it out!

AAK HYDRAULIC CARTRIDGE VALVES (760) 2024-01-16

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