Quintax R4

The Quintax R4 is offered in a standard configuration with 6,000 mm X-axis travel and can be extended for customers with larger part requirements. Extended X configurations are available for wind turbine blade, aerospace, and marine composite customers who need to process parts exceeding 6 meters in length. Extended X configurations require facility planning for additional machine length and appropriate foundation design. Contact Quintax to discuss specific working envelope requirements for your part family.

The R4's fixed table design allows overhead crane access across the full table length for loading and unloading large and heavy composite panels, foam blocks, and tooling fixtures. Quintax can integrate roller conveyors at table height for sliding large panels onto the table from a staging area. For large wind turbine and aerospace composite panels, dedicated fixture frames are typically pre-positioned on the R4 table and composite skins are laid into the fixture before machining. Quintax's application team assists with fixture design for specific large-format part handling requirements.

The Quintax R4 with Siemens Sinumerik 840D sl control is compatible with all major 5-axis CAM systems used in aerospace and composites, including Siemens NX CAM, CATIA CAM, Mastercam 5-axis, PowerMILL, and HyperMILL. Quintax provides 5-axis post-processors for the Sinumerik 840D sl platform for these CAM systems and offers post-processor development support for customers with specific programming requirements. The Sinumerik 840D sl's RTCP (Rotational Tool Center Point) function is standard on R4, enabling accurate 5-axis contouring with tool center tracking.

The Quintax R4 can perform light aluminum routing and trimming operations such as aluminum skin panel trimming, frame cutout routing, and edge milling on aluminum structural parts. It is not optimized for heavy aluminum milling — for production-volume aerospace aluminum machining, a dedicated 5-axis machining center with higher spindle torque and cutting force capacity would be more appropriate. Mixed composite-and-aluminum aerospace assemblies where both materials require routing and trimming in a single setup are a strong R4 application.

Carbon fiber and glass fiber routing on the R4 generates significant quantities of fine abrasive composite dust that requires industrial-grade extraction. The R4 includes an integrated dust extraction shroud at the routing head that captures routing debris at the source. Quintax requires connection to an industrial dust collector sized for the extraction volume of the large-format routing envelope. Collected composite dust must be handled and disposed of as hazardous waste per applicable regulations. Quintax can specify appropriate extraction equipment and recommend industrial hygiene practices for composite routing operations.