Ibarmia ZMV4

The Ibarmia ZMV4 is a 3 axis moving-column machining center: a fixed table, a travelling column and the vertical ZV head. In effect it is a long-bed vertical machine. X can be ordered up to 12,000 mm (472.4 in), and the spindle is listed at 46 kW (61.7 hp) and 12,000 rpm with SK-40, BT-40, HSK A-63 or CAPTO 6 holders.

Ibarmia describes the ZV head as a High Dynamics spindle and pairs it with what the page calls the highest feed rates, though no rapid or feed figure is printed. With 12,000 rpm available, the natural work is profiles, extrusions, plates and rails in aluminium or steel, cut with small and mid-size tools over a long stroke.

Across the bed the room is modest. Y is 800 or 1,000 mm (31.5 or 39.4 in); Z is 800 or 900 mm (31.5 or 35.4 in). A long table like this is rarely used for one part at a time. Ibarmia lists pendulum working and custom trunnion fixtures, and notes that removing the fixed table under a trunnion gives chips a clear passage to the extraction system. A horizontal rotary table can be added where a fourth axis is needed.

What separates it from the ZMS4 is the head and nothing else on the page: the ZMS4 prints the same travels, spindle power and speed, and adds a head that tilts +/- 120º. If every job is machined from above, the ZMV4 is the simpler machine. If side faces or angled holes turn up regularly, the tilting head saves the extra set-ups.