Milling machines

Milling machines are divided into following categories: 

Console type – console is moving here in the vertical Z axis and supporting a cross table which is moving along X and Y axis. 

Tool type – compact one, mainly for tool shops.

Table type – with the larger table which is moving along the bed in traverse direction on X axis with retractable headstock in Y axis suspended from the column along which it moves in the vertical direction of the Z axis. For machining the milling head is used and can be adjusted horizontally or vertically. Milling head can be also indexed in the B axis, or continuously controlled in two axes. 

Plano type – with a two-column gantry carrying a crossbar with a spindle moving along it in the Y axis and retractable in the Z axis. Further it is divided into: 

1. with the moving table along the X axis under the gantry
2. with the moving gantry along the X axis

Rolling type – for production of the gears.

Manual and CNC milling machines Tos Kuřim, Tos Olomouc, INTOS, SHW

Milling machine can be controlled manually using buttons, levers and wheels. More modern ones are equipped with digital readout of X,Y,Z axes or with regular CNC control. Most common are systems from producers HEIDENHAIN, SIEMENS, FANUC or FAGOR.

The most famous and traditional brand of milling machines in Czech Republic is TOS Kurim, which is manufacturing wide range of milling machines from small tool machines to the largest portal ones. Not even TOS Kurim is engaged in manufacturing such machines. There are also other TOS companies such as – TOS Olomouc a TOS Čelákovice, or INTOS. Among the world manufacturers of milling machines SHW,  CME, MTE, SORALUCE a ZAYER, Italian EMCO or American producer LAGUN.

In case of portal milling machines the main competitor of TOS is Taiwan company HARTFORD, KAO MING, LEADWELL or SMTCL, furthermore German  WALDRICH COBURG, Spanish producers CORREA a SORALUCE, or MAZAK and OKUMA from Japan which are using their own CNC systems same as HAAS or HURCO does.