The CMS Advanced Materials Technology business unit offers considerable expertise and numerous state-of-the-art solutions for fabricating with high-performance materials, including composites, carbon fiber, aluminum, and light alloys.
Significant investments in research and development mean the company can respond to the most complex market challenges with its CNC machining centers, and its additive manufacturing and milling systems. Machines capable of ensuring best-in-class performance in terms of accuracy, execution speed and reliability.
Overall, these advanced technological solutions meet the needs of customers operating in sectors that are highly complex and have extremely demanding quality standards.
Over the last 30 years, CMS has been dedicated to developing machines with a special focus on high-performance materials such as aluminum and carbon fiber to target various sectors, including aerospace and defense.
These materials are essential in the aerospace industry because of their unique properties: aluminum offers lightness combined with great strength, while carbon fiber is chosen for its combination of exceptional strength and low specific weight
CMS's experience in fabricating with aluminum and carbon fiber
CMS machines have been designed to exploit the properties of these materials, allowing precise and rapid machining without compromising their structural integrity.
Aluminum requires special machining techniques that minimize the risks of deformation, while the complexity of carbon fiber requires machining that does not damage the fibers.
CMS has therefore developed technologies that not only treat these materials with the utmost care, but operate efficiently and productively.
CMS's experience in the sector and its continuous technological innovation are factors that allow it to constantly improve the capabilities of its machines and ensure the components produced are of the highest quality.
Some examples of aerospace fabrication:
In addition to these, CMS can develop custom solutions to meet all the production needs of any company.
In detail, CMS can offer different types of specific machines for fabricating with aluminum and carbon fiber for the aerospace and defense sectors.
Monobloc CNC machining centers for vertical milling
CMS Advanced Materials Technology monobloc CNC machining centers for vertical milling are designed for fabricating with composites, aluminum, and metals. With structures based on advanced design and adoption of state-of-the-art technological solutions, these machines guarantee rigidity, precision, speed and flexibility. Features that result in exceptional degree of surface finish and unparalleled accuracy.
One of the key innovations is CMS Adaptive Technology, a function integrated into the control system that allows the operator to optimize material removal parameters for a given surface, simply by calling up the mapping. This technology significantly reduces cycle times on complex surfaces, without compromising finish quality or precision.
Every detail of these machines has been designed to offer uncompromising performance, making them the ideal choice for applications that require maximum reliability and the highest quality results.
Highly configurable
Monobloc CNC machining centers offer large work areas and unparalleled configuration flexibility, thanks to options such as extractable (APC) and rotary (TR) worktables. These features ensure maximum operational freedom and new production opportunities by adapting to companies’ different needs.
Maximum productivity
Newly designed electrospindles offer a full range of torque, power and rpm solutions to maximize productivity. Moreover, ultrasonic cutting units can be integrated to create a perfect synergy for fabricating with composite materials.
Cutting fluid systems
Some models are equipped with built-in cutting fluid systems, designed for fabricating aluminum parts. Every component, from the sealed base to the multi-layer safety windows, is optimized for excellent performance and uncompromising efficiency.
A 5-axis machining center such as Ikon features a vertical worktable geometry, which is ideal for fabricating composite material and aluminum components.
It can be equipped with one or two operating units to ensure high productivity while offering optimal work area visibility.
Its advanced design based on a monobloc structure developed by CMS, together with the technical solutions adopted, ensure long-term rigidity and precision.
Mix of power and precision
The CMS monobloc machining center for horizontal milling is equipped with two vertical rotary worktables and a double 5-axis operating unit to allow simultaneous tooling and workpiece loading and unloading. This allows two workpieces to be fabricated at the same time, or a single large workpiece using both units. The high operating power, combined with geometric precision and reliability even in complex fabrication, can produce high quality parts in short times.
Maximum flexibility
Because of its geometry with rotary vertical tables, the machine is extremely compact, with a footprint that is 41% lower compared to traditional configurations. A design that facilitates integration into any production environment, even the smallest. External accessibility for loading and unloading outside the work area not only improves safety and efficiency, but is easily integrated into highly automated environments.
Dust and chip removal
Ikon is fully enclosed to contain dust and chips during fabrication, thus ensuring operator safety. The automatic chip removal system is supported by a motor-driven belt that exploits the particular machine geometry to collect any residues that fall, while special extraction ports keep the area clean from dust.
CNC machining centers created according to the CMS philosophy: these machines are the result of experience gained within strategic sectors such as aerospace.
Their structures and technical solutions, combined with high quality components, ensure high finish levels, high fabrication speeds, reliability, structural rigidity, application flexibility and high productivity.
High performance
Workpiece sizes are no longer an obstacle, even for the most demanding sectors such as aerospace. With a design inspired by aeronautical engineering principles, CMS guarantees higher volumetric precision, with a tolerance reduction of 21% compared to the industry average, to ensure exceptional performance without compromise.
Reliability and shorter times
High operating power, geometric precision and reliability, even in the most complex fabrication, mean that these machines can produce high quality parts in short times. They are designed to integrate better into any production situation to make processes more efficient and competitive.
Customization
The machines feature customized configuration, with options such as single or double operating units, single or double work areas, 5-axis milling units with powers from 12 to 32 kW, and 5-axis units with waterjet technology. With over 100 sizes and configurations, any company can find the most suitable solution for its production needs.
Here is a summary of the reasons why companies operating in the aerospace sector should choose CMS-specific solutions.
Experience: CMS stands out for its innovation and expertise, boasting over 30 years of experience and continuous technological development in manufacturing machinery for the sector.
Reliability: With its ethos, ares, antares, poseidon and vm30k machining centers, CMS represents a benchmark in the aerospace and defense world, with over 300 machines installed in companies in the sector and operating worldwide.
Adaptability: CMS has developed a wide range of operating units with specific characteristics for every need and production application. These can be used in pairs, reducing execution times by 53%, depending on the different fabrication types.
