Explore Fives Giddings & Lewis machine tools at Hillary Machinery, including horizontal boring mills and vertical turning centers. Evaluate equipment for machining large castings, housings, rings, and other demanding components. Match your machine configuration to the workpiece dimensions, weight, feature access, and required turning, milling, and boring operations.
Fives Giddings & Lewis manufactures horizontal boring mills, horizontal machining centers, and vertical turning centers. Its equipment provides options for manufacturers processing components that require substantial workpiece capacity and access to multiple features.
Hillary Machinery can help you evaluate Giddings & Lewis equipment around your machining application. Start with the component, then review the machine envelope, workholding, spindle requirements, tooling, and handling needed to complete the job.
Horizontal boring mills support operations such as boring, milling, drilling, and tapping on large components. They are worth evaluating for housings, castings, and fabrications with features that require reach into the workpiece or access from different positions.
Compare axis travel, spindle extension, table capacity, and clearance with the actual fixture and component in place. A machine’s nominal travel does not establish whether every feature can be reached with the required tool and setup.
For deep bores or extended tool reach, review the complete cutting arrangement. Tool length, spindle position, support, and workholding influence the process and should be considered alongside power and torque.
Vertical turning centers support the workpiece on a horizontal rotating table. This arrangement is useful to evaluate for large-diameter components such as rings, flanges, and cylindrical housings.
Machine selection should account for turning diameter, workpiece height, weight, and the space required for jaws or fixtures. Review ram travel and tool access for internal and external features, including areas close to the table or workholding.
The loading method also matters. Plan how the component will be lifted, positioned, clamped, and inspected throughout the machining sequence.
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Selected Giddings & Lewis configurations add live-spindle machining and other capabilities to vertical turning. These options can allow additional features to be machined while the component remains in the same setup.
Evaluate combined operations around the part drawing. Identify which surfaces need turning, where holes or milled features are located, and whether the proposed tooling can reach them without interference.
For large components, reducing transfers between machines can simplify handling and alignment. The appropriate configuration depends on the workpiece, feature relationships, and the operations that can be completed effectively in one setup.
Large-part machining requires a workholding plan that supports cutting forces while preserving access to the required features. Fixtures, clamps, jaws, and support points occupy part of the usable machine envelope.
Review the setup in each planned machining position. Confirm that tooling can approach the component, chips can be removed, and operators can reach the areas needed for setup and inspection.
Include the weight of the complete fixture and workpiece when evaluating table or pallet capacity. Also consider how changes in component size affect setup time and available clearance.
Where available on the selected configuration, pallet handling can allow workpiece setup outside the active machining area. This can be useful when a component requires significant loading, clamping, or alignment time.
Compare setup time with the machining cycle to determine how additional pallets would fit the workflow. Include fixture storage, lifting access, inspection, and the movement of completed components when planning the installation.
Confirm the pallet system and automation options for the specific machine under consideration.
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Provide the following information when discussing your equipment requirements:
Compare equipment against representative parts as well as the largest planned component. The most demanding application may be defined by tool access or tolerance requirements rather than size alone.
Plan the installation around the machine’s requirements and the way components move through your facility. Review foundation requirements, utilities, chip removal, coolant management, and maintenance access for the proposed configuration.
Allow space for loading, fixture preparation, and inspection. Establishing these requirements early helps connect machine selection with a practical production layout.
Contact Hillary Machinery to discuss Fives Giddings & Lewis horizontal boring mills and vertical turning centers. Share representative drawings, component dimensions and weight, material specifications, and the operations you need to complete.
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