Tour at Hurco Anniversary Celebration Reveals IMTS Preview
In 2018, Hurco celebrates 50 years in business as a provider of CNC machine tools. In honor of this milestone, Hurco had a 50-year anniversary open house with festivities and a technology tour that included the items the company will display at IMTS2018.
Hurco celebrates 50 years in business in 2018. In observance of the milestone, Hurco hosted an afternoon of technology tours and fun. The event included a live radio broadcast, remote-controlled car racing, corn hole and cake!
Hurco will have the BX50i double column machining center on display at IMTS2018. The BX50i incorporates Takumi technology and was designed for high speeds and tight tolerances. It’s surface-finish capabilities make it suitable for die/mold applications.
This is Hurco’s high-speed, double column BX40i machining center, which Hurco had on display in its showroom.
This is the space where Hurco builds and repairs spindles. Customer service representatives at Hurco have an average of 25 years of experience. The software support engineering team has seven engineers, and they oversee all beta sites.
This image features Mike Cope (giving a seminar on five-axis machining) and Modern Machine Shop editor Derek Korn. Mike Cope is a product technical specialist at Hurco. He also is the author of The Power of FIVE: the Definitive Guide to Five-Axis Machining, which was officially released at last year’s Top Shops competition.
Hurco had corn hole and remote-controlled race cars at its headquarters for the celebration.
The exhibit house that built the racetrack for the remote-controlled cars at Hurco also 3D printed the finish-line towers.
Last week, I visited Hurco’s global headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the company’s 50th anniversary celebration. Festivities included technology tours, a five-axis technology seminar with Hurco’s Mike Cope, remote control race car racing, corn hole, food, drinks and cake.
One of them was the BX50i double column machining center (see slideshow), which Hurco will have on display at IMTS2018. The BX50i incorporates Takumi technology and was designed for high speeds and tight tolerances. It has an 18,000 rpm-spindle, 47 horsepower, 88 ft/lb peak torque. It has a rapid traverse along its X, Y and Z axes that moves at 39 meters per minute. The stability of the column and the ladder design of the Z axis enable this machine to provide surface finish capabilities that Dave Plank says can spare the machinist the need to provide post-machining surface polishing. Therefore, the surface finish capabilities of this center make the BX50i suitable for die and mold applications. This center is a “big brother” to the BX40i, which Hurco had in its showroom.
Check out the slideshow to see other products and activities that Hurco featured at its headquarters for the celebration. Happy anniversary, Hurco!
And, just for fun, check out this cool beer tap that Hurco machined for Bottoms Up Beer:
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