Hey guys,
We're a shop that does a lot of drilling/tapping/facing on castings that we produce, and I'm looking for some ammunition for cycle time advantage for replacing an old VF0 we have in the shop with a new DM-1. Has anyone made the switch, or would be able to give me a reliable estimate for how much faster the cycle times ended up being? Naturally this varies with the amount of tool changes and such, and I've done a rough benchmark through Mastercam's Verify with the parameters changed in the machine definition to be accurate to the two machines. But would really like to hear someone's personal experience.
I guess finding someone who can run the part and clock its cycle would work too, but that's a bit harder to do.