That is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I've seen plenty of CNC machines run, but I've never seen anything that complex done on one. Definitely set up by a pro. A billet engine block... Absolutely incredible.
I've gotten to see some genius of a kid actually make a Matsuura 'sing'. Needless to say, I have a newfound respect for the machine as an artist. It's truly gorgeous, to say the least.
I got a buddy that runs MasterCam on his lowly HAAS....watching him program simple small items (ATV items mostly) this totally has me floored. Impressive programing on an equally impressive machine. I can't even show this to my bud...he will WET himself for sure! Great vid.
I work in engineering recruitment, I deal with CNC programmer/setters/operators on a daily basis. These videos give me a great insight into the work they do. This in particular is very interesting.
I used to programme CNC machines at school, but my masterpiece was when I managed to get my name to the piece of metal :) This video is really impressive!
Watching a machine that I could only ever dream of owning, Awesome project, as a machinist I can appreciate the planning that went into this job, well done!
Work of art is right - that's amazing. I love the fluid tilt and rotation of the block while the cutter is inside the top of the cylinder - almost erotic. I have a Bridgeport mill, and a South Bend and a Hardinge lathe and they seem like stone axes and flint arrowheads in comparison - gotta quit being intimidated by CNC and dig in. Fascinating, Captain!
After 11 years of technology and industry progress, can you please reveal what kind of vehicle this block was for and how it was used? Great video and background music, blended perfectly. This is one of my first ever favorited video here on UA-cam, thanks so much.
que sorprendente video la persona que iso ese programa no tiene que preocuparse por el dinero jamas. este video me inspira a seguir trabajando en los programas de cnc, aunque por ahora solo manejo el torno
Thanks for responding. I read somewhere it took something like 120 hrs to finish this so yeah I'd have to agree that this would probably be used for a one off for a super cars like the Bugatti Veyron.
Wow, amazing technology... I could sit 'n watch this for hours, and that kinda worries me! There's something about the perfection of the finished item - grooovy man
it is an aftermarket alum. ford block. its the 4.6/5.4L family. A ford pioneer Sean Hyland teamed up with World Class and made this prototype you see here, they have been out foe about a year and a half now. it handles over 2500 Horsepower, made for drag and endurence racing. cost is about $3500. i had the chance to buy one of these. Very nice!
I was just reading about this process in an issue of I think Drag Racing magazine, it showed how solid Aluminum blocks were machined like this, very nice, I like's that!
Wow what an amazing machine. I remember my grandfather making custom engines it would take him 2 sometimes 3 weeks to hand machine a block & custom heads
You need to remember that Matsuura is only showing what this machine can do. Where I worked we 4 of theses making production parts for the Auto industry these moved so fast we had bolt them 18" in the concrete these are fantastic machines
Yes you can. Almost every scrap now. Matsuura work closely with materials reclamation companies & we have systems already in use that reclaim 90% + of all excess machined material. Thanks for the post.
Great video..is ipnotic! .. and great tool! Everyone should have one of this at home! with your hummer and drill, have always a Matsuura machine close to you!
Greetings MustangAficionado, Indeed it is reclaimable material. Many Matsuura customers utilise a briquetting machine for the reclamation of discarded machined material. The process is relatively straight forward & like most processes on Matsuura's this too can be automated. As costs get ever tighter it is important for machining businesses to maximise all available profit potential from their Matsuura - & we pride ourselves on maximising their return on investment. Thanks for the post.
oh balls! My chin dropped at 6:40. 1: that block looks BEAUTIFUL! 2: That MACHINE is amazing! 119 hours? Yeah, I could easily stand there for 2 weeks just to watch. Damn!
who dislikes this.....company owners who don't have this machine?? haha, rediculous...this is incredible. Just for a moment, lets imagine that someway, somehow..this reality is in actuality really leading us to something just as incredible....and tangible...without destroying one another and that which we exist within in the process.
Gretings Avigadro, Agreed, this is not a replacement technology for every casting application, but it is a viable alternative for some very bespoke work suffering from the established problems with the casting process. Companies approach Matsuura with a view to machining from solid for a myriad of reasons, exchanging their casting process for a CADCAM direct to machine tool route being one. This gives them total ownership of their process "in house". Thanks for the post. RMF
Metal in bulk is usually bought from foundarys all over the country, there are many many company's the produce there own metals and sell them to a wide range of customers. I use to work at a material testing lab, and we tested all forms of metals from a wide range of foundry customers.
This block is made of aluminium,the program made by the CAM system must have been enormous!!! Although most of the blocks are cast,there are some which don't made this way.Of course a machine like this is too expensive and needs special software and stuff thanks for uploading!!
for those who don't know what a 5 or 6 axis stands for ..mimic the movements of a human arm, axis 1 and 2 are effectively a shoulder, axis 3 and 4 elbow and forearm and axis 5 and 6 are the wrist of the robot
Engine production lines are even faster. They use transfer lines, which are multiple machines lined up single file. Engine blocks start out as raw castings, so only a minimal amount of finish machining is required. Each casting is mounted to a pallet and moves from machine to machine, down the transfer line. The 6 hours that it takes to machine one engine block from solid is enough time to make hundreds in a transfer line.
Strength and precision as well as composition of the alloy. Every piece of alloy is different in it's own unique way. It's molecular, but it's all the same in the one block. If you use different pieces, then your engine has very slightly (but still different) metal compositions. So this advantage means that your engine is uniform. xD
A, B, and C are rotating axes and can consist of anything from a lathe type axis (rotating parallel to a given axis), to a turntable type axis (this specific mill uses those two axes) or an axis to turn the actual tool head. If you don't believe me, google it or get on the wikipedia, its pretty simple. Or read "machine tool practices" thats where I learned it from back when I went to school for machining.
Next week, watch how the V8 engine is again crafted but with a hacksaw and a couple of old hand files. Oh, and a bit of sandpaper. Boy oh boy, could I do with this M5A in my workshop! I'd use all my metal stock up making stuff I couldn't ever use....but would sure look nice! :oD
When milling any kind of material to a high degree of accuracy there is always a rough cut and a finish cut, but during both cuts all of the tools cutting edges are used, a tool that is worked on all of it's cutting edges will give a much better finish, which will mean greater accuracy.
Very Impressive... Ok it takes its time until the block becomse the engingeblock but its amazing how fast but at the same time with such a precision ... i love CNC Machines :D have to become Master of Engineering :)
High end, way high end!!! really really great vid, but im sure it dosent do it justice...something like that needs up close and personal inspection to be fully respected.
@RulerOfEverything Correct... although I believe it could be used for drag racing as some drag cars don't run a coolant system because it robs power and is not necessary for such short engine running times
Are some of you ppl that nuts to think these guys plan to use the engine block? The purpose of the vid is to show of the weeks and week of programing that they did and can do in their shop. The code for this program would be in the hundreds of thousands of lines! And I'm betting that if they did fit it with the rest of the internals it would run very nicely Look at the finish you can see where they machined in the name, its near mirrored! This is an amazing piece of CNC coding!!!!
That looks like a solid aluminium billet. This will be for a very high performance aplication and costs a forture to do. Most mass production blocks are cast iron and then cylinders and other fine tolerence areas are machined. As you can see this has been machined from the start.
The other issue with casting is that you must melt the metal, which totally destroys the consistency of grain structure in a metal. Significant material properties derive from the heat treating and cooling process of the final product. A block like this can be controlled to provide the correct properties during manufacturing and milling can preserve that. A cast part would have to be re-treated, which would warp parts.
Sure, but it is so neat and cost effective, and just like tailored clothes, having your instruments tailored to your needs eliminates a lot of headache. It almost justifies the cost in a worthwhile project.
watching these machines, i get the idea of how amazing engineering is. A dedecation to mathematical precission in combination with design and arts.isnt this true creating? Wether the artist nor the worker has his mind in those two realms, only the engineer has.
Greetings Micronhunter, Unfortunately there are only 7 in the Uk now - & all are spoken for. i do have one on dispaly in our UK Showroom next to the MAM72-63V that machined it - as you will see at our Open House - & yes it is that shiny. Cheers
i never saw a table pivot like that before now that's amazing! i bet the code for that program is about 100,000 pages. I see that they implemented the pallet system too. That the way to stay competitive
Oh hell yeah. They easily beat needed tolerances on the first run. They are built specifically to do that kind of thing in one step. The tolerance right from the machines means there is no further machining necessary. They are amazing. Usually they dumping lots more oil on the bits though while working. They must have limited it for the video.
I wonder how long the actual cycle time is? I've only worked as an operator with horizontal or vertical machines... a job like this would require SO many separate ops on various machines. This is amazing...
Machined Blocks allow custom designs that can meet the needs of specific applications (strength, design, metalurgical properties etc.) plus it allows the use of Billet blanks so that the grain structure of the metal is uniform. so in one way it is better but only needed in very specialized circumstances (and unlimited budgets..lol) Cast blocks are more than proficient in %99 of the time.
Greetings andr123w, Matsuura also supply total & automated reclamation systems for the chips. These are fed through a bricketing machine to give you a neat & saleable commodity. Cheers RMF
Unbeleivable!!! I remember programming a Mori Seiki Mill with G & M codes (a 4th axis was a lifesaver in progressive operations). I would not have believed technology has come this far in 15 years ...unless I watched this video. What operation was the "5 axis" portion of the video performing?
That is so awesome. I wonder if there are a lot of real-world applications for a high-precision CNC engine block. I bet the super-tight tolerances would make for some killer performance!
This is a fantastic vIdeo. Just think, now, 2011. With the advances in the CAM side of the operation, it could be even better. Plus a few advances in tooling too.
Totally amazing very impressed by this video. im just about to get into hobby cnc at home im setting up a seig x2 for cnc going to have four axis the three of the machine plus a rotary table setup on it using MACH3 really looking forward to using it...
This video oozes early 2000s in so many ways.
That is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I've seen plenty of CNC machines run, but I've never seen anything that complex done on one. Definitely set up by a pro. A billet engine block... Absolutely incredible.
I've gotten to see some genius of a kid actually make a Matsuura 'sing'. Needless to say, I have a newfound respect for the machine as an artist. It's truly gorgeous, to say the least.
In the past 10 years , i watch this video and, i m still love for this piece of Art !
whoever wrote those CNC codes is one freakin genius!
I just wrote my first CNC program today at school.. Alot of fun!
I got a buddy that runs MasterCam on his lowly HAAS....watching him program simple small items (ATV items mostly) this totally has me floored. Impressive programing on an equally impressive machine. I can't even show this to my bud...he will WET himself for sure! Great vid.
You have my deepest respect. Before working as a machinist I did much of the same. I'll come relieve you if you need a vacation.
I work in engineering recruitment, I deal with CNC programmer/setters/operators on a daily basis. These videos give me a great insight into the work they do. This in particular is very interesting.
Quite possibly the most complex and intricate machining operation I have ever seen.
I used to programme CNC machines at school, but my masterpiece was when I managed to get my name to the piece of metal :) This video is really impressive!
Watching a machine that I could only ever dream of owning, Awesome project, as a machinist I can appreciate the planning that went into this job, well done!
Hell Of A Program, You Really Can't Beat The 5 Axis CNC Machining Centers.
That is one of the most beautiful engine blocks i've ever seen.
I love how at 3:23 it turns it as if it didn't weight anything. I've worked on cnc for a while now and yet, I find this clip amazing.
This video hypnotized me man, it really is meditation for men. I honest to god fell into a trance watching this thing mill out a V8.
Work of art is right - that's amazing. I love the fluid tilt and rotation of the block while the cutter is inside the top of the cylinder - almost erotic. I have a Bridgeport mill, and a South Bend and a Hardinge lathe and they seem like stone axes and flint arrowheads in comparison - gotta quit being intimidated by CNC and dig in. Fascinating, Captain!
After 11 years of technology and industry progress, can you please reveal what kind of vehicle this block was for and how it was used? Great video and background music, blended perfectly. This is one of my first ever favorited video here on UA-cam, thanks so much.
que sorprendente video la persona que iso ese programa no tiene que preocuparse por el dinero jamas. este video me inspira a seguir trabajando en los programas de cnc, aunque por ahora solo manejo el torno
Thanks for responding.
I read somewhere it took something like 120 hrs to finish this so yeah I'd have to agree that this would probably be used for a one off for a super cars like the Bugatti Veyron.
This is the reason why I'm studying a machining techlonogy. It's so astonishing
Incredible.
What's really amazing is the table starts moving at 6:37.
Wow, amazing technology... I could sit 'n watch this for hours, and that kinda worries me! There's something about the perfection of the finished item - grooovy man
it is an aftermarket alum. ford block. its the 4.6/5.4L family. A ford pioneer Sean Hyland teamed up with World Class and made this prototype you see here, they have been out foe about a year and a half now. it handles over 2500 Horsepower, made for drag and endurence racing. cost is about $3500. i had the chance to buy one of these. Very nice!
Awesome video, love the sound of the chips hitting the glass. Very intense programing there.
I love technology, i cant imagine that this job was done by human hand, it took sooooo long
I was just reading about this process in an issue of I think Drag Racing magazine, it showed how solid Aluminum blocks were machined like this, very nice, I like's that!
Wow what an amazing machine. I remember my grandfather making custom engines it would take him 2 sometimes 3 weeks to hand machine a block & custom heads
You need to remember that Matsuura is only showing what this machine can do. Where I worked we 4 of theses making production parts for the Auto industry these moved so fast we had bolt them 18" in the concrete these are fantastic machines
Man it is amazing how all the stuff around us is built.
Yes you can. Almost every scrap now. Matsuura work closely with materials reclamation companies & we have systems already in use that reclaim 90% + of all excess machined material.
Thanks for the post.
Great machines Nakamura's. Built to exacting standards - we appreciate the quality of their products very much.
I want the job of watching that stuff all day and get paid for it.
i was impressed when i realised that they even machined in the water galleries, meaning that it could be a functioning engine :)
Great video..is ipnotic! .. and great tool! Everyone should have one of this at home! with your hummer and drill, have always a Matsuura machine close to you!
Greetings MustangAficionado,
Indeed it is reclaimable material. Many Matsuura customers utilise a briquetting machine for the reclamation of discarded machined material. The process is relatively straight forward & like most processes on Matsuura's this too can be automated. As costs get ever tighter it is important for machining businesses to maximise all available profit potential from their Matsuura - & we pride ourselves on maximising their return on investment.
Thanks for the post.
fantastic CNC milling machine..
6:38 is the wonderful process, 5 axis work in the same time!
Now record this in 4k please.
:)
Truly amazing and oddly beautiful to watch. Watching the workpiece being machined is kinda relaxing.
but it is not when u crash or a failing tool waste all that material XD
oh balls! My chin dropped at 6:40. 1: that block looks BEAUTIFUL! 2: That MACHINE is amazing!
119 hours? Yeah, I could easily stand there for 2 weeks just to watch. Damn!
who dislikes this.....company owners who don't have this machine?? haha, rediculous...this is incredible. Just for a moment, lets imagine that someway, somehow..this reality is in actuality really leading us to something just as incredible....and tangible...without destroying one another and that which we exist within in the process.
Sorry to disapoint you, but this is a real engine that really does work.
Gretings Avigadro,
Agreed, this is not a replacement technology for every casting application, but it is a viable alternative for some very bespoke work suffering from the established problems with the casting process.
Companies approach Matsuura with a view to machining from solid for a myriad of reasons, exchanging their casting process for a CADCAM direct to machine tool route being one. This gives them total ownership of their process "in house".
Thanks for the post.
RMF
oh man thats a nice piece of kit, i cant even convince my boss to get us digital readouts on our twin arbor mill!!!
Metal in bulk is usually bought from foundarys all over the country, there are many many company's the produce there own metals and sell them to a wide range of customers. I use to work at a material testing lab, and we tested all forms of metals from a wide range of foundry customers.
This porn has the best music I have heard in a while!
with the amount of money a block of aluminum that size costs, there is no trial and error. master cam is a beautiful program.
This block is made of aluminium,the program made by the CAM system must have been enormous!!!
Although most of the blocks are cast,there are some which don't made this way.Of course a machine like this is too expensive and needs special software and stuff
thanks for uploading!!
この技術は今後どう発展してどんな物に使われるんだろうとか、技術者のどういった努力の積み重ねで出来たものなのか、とか考えると本当にワクワクする。
for those who don't know what a 5 or 6 axis stands for ..mimic the movements of a human arm, axis 1 and 2 are effectively a shoulder, axis 3 and 4 elbow and forearm and axis 5 and 6 are the wrist of the robot
Engine production lines are even faster. They use transfer lines, which are multiple machines lined up single file.
Engine blocks start out as raw castings, so only a minimal amount of finish machining is required.
Each casting is mounted to a pallet and moves from machine to machine, down the transfer line.
The 6 hours that it takes to machine one engine block from solid is enough time to make hundreds in a transfer line.
Strength and precision as well as composition of the alloy. Every piece of alloy is different in it's own unique way. It's molecular, but it's all the same in the one block. If you use different pieces, then your engine has very slightly (but still different) metal compositions. So this advantage means that your engine is uniform. xD
Finding such machines like these beautiful makes me?
Surprisingly & re-assuringly cost effective.
Thanks
man i'd live to have a block like that in my car, machined to near perfection.
One of the best videos I've ever seen!
Forget the high tech CNC stuff, What amazes me is, the Hi Def potato they used to record this!
Impressive....
That's a work of art.
A, B, and C are rotating axes and can consist of anything from a lathe type axis (rotating parallel to a given axis), to a turntable type axis (this specific mill uses those two axes) or an axis to turn the actual tool head. If you don't believe me, google it or get on the wikipedia, its pretty simple. Or read "machine tool practices" thats where I learned it from back when I went to school for machining.
Next week, watch how the V8 engine is again crafted but with a hacksaw and a couple of old hand files. Oh, and a bit of sandpaper.
Boy oh boy, could I do with this M5A in my workshop! I'd use all my metal stock up making stuff I couldn't ever use....but would sure look nice! :oD
When milling any kind of material to a high degree of accuracy there is always a rough cut and a finish cut, but during both cuts all of the tools cutting edges are used, a tool that is worked on all of it's cutting edges will give a much better finish, which will mean greater accuracy.
Well if I win the powerball, I'm buying one of those. Very interesting video. Awesum performing CNC.
Very Impressive... Ok it takes its time until the block becomse the engingeblock but its amazing how fast but at the same time with such a precision ... i love CNC Machines :D
have to become Master of Engineering :)
High end, way high end!!! really really great vid, but im sure it dosent do it justice...something like that needs up close and personal inspection to be fully respected.
Wow, just incredible how they did the engine
@RulerOfEverything Correct... although I believe it could be used for drag racing as some drag cars don't run a coolant system because it robs power and is not necessary for such short engine running times
Quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen.
This is a fantastic vIdeo. Just think, now, 2011. With the advances in the CAM side of the operation, it could be even better.
офигенно. когда-нибудь на автовазе появятся такие станки :)
Are some of you ppl that nuts to think these guys plan to use the engine block? The purpose of the vid is to show of the weeks and week of programing that they did and can do in their shop. The code for this program would be in the hundreds of thousands of lines! And I'm betting that if they did fit it with the rest of the internals it would run very nicely Look at the finish you can see where they machined in the name, its near mirrored! This is an amazing piece of CNC coding!!!!
Yes. They are a valuable commodity. The material is transported via conveyors to a Bricket making machine.
Wow, that is some masterful programming there.
just amazing! i have a feeling that some day it may replace casting
That looks like a solid aluminium billet. This will be for a very high performance aplication and costs a forture to do. Most mass production blocks are cast iron and then cylinders and other fine tolerence areas are machined. As you can see this has been machined from the start.
I like how when its milling out the cylinders that the platform is doing a sexy dance with the bet.
The other issue with casting is that you must melt the metal, which totally destroys the consistency of grain structure in a metal. Significant material properties derive from the heat treating and cooling process of the final product. A block like this can be controlled to provide the correct properties during manufacturing and milling can preserve that. A cast part would have to be re-treated, which would warp parts.
Disco at 6:40 > 8:10
Really amazing watching a block getting made :D
Sure, but it is so neat and cost effective, and just like tailored clothes, having your instruments tailored to your needs eliminates a lot of headache. It almost justifies the cost in a worthwhile project.
watching these machines, i get the idea of how amazing engineering is.
A dedecation to mathematical precission in combination with design and arts.isnt this true creating?
Wether the artist nor the worker has his mind in those two realms, only the engineer has.
you see the coolant being constantly poured, thats what makes it cooler
Greetings Micronhunter,
Unfortunately there are only 7 in the Uk now - & all are spoken for.
i do have one on dispaly in our UK Showroom next to the MAM72-63V that machined it - as you will see at our Open House - & yes it is that shiny.
Cheers
i never saw a table pivot like that before now that's amazing! i bet the code for that program is about 100,000 pages. I see that they implemented the pallet system too. That the way to stay competitive
Oh hell yeah. They easily beat needed tolerances on the first run. They are built specifically to do that kind of thing in one step.
The tolerance right from the machines means there is no further machining necessary. They are amazing. Usually they dumping lots more oil on the bits though while working. They must have limited it for the video.
this is the second time i have watched this and its still great!!!!
@staM034 i think by the looks it is just smoothing the bore so that it doesn't damage piston rings.
bellissimo video... sembra incredibile la precisione
amazing! fantastic! it holds the block like a book
one hell of a machine...no wonder one of these machine i know so far cost MYR 1.7 million and it is sitting inside my college..
I wonder how long the actual cycle time is? I've only worked as an operator with horizontal or vertical machines... a job like this would require SO many separate ops on various machines. This is amazing...
Спасибо за видео, всегда хотел увидеть, как блоки изготавливают таким способом.
that was awesome, i take it those drills have diamonds embedded in their heads
Machined Blocks allow custom designs that can meet the needs of specific applications (strength, design, metalurgical properties etc.) plus it allows the use of Billet blanks so that the grain structure of the metal is uniform. so in one way it is better but only needed in very specialized circumstances (and unlimited budgets..lol) Cast blocks are more than proficient in %99 of the time.
Greetings andr123w,
Matsuura also supply total & automated reclamation systems for the chips. These are fed through a bricketing machine to give you a neat & saleable commodity.
Cheers
RMF
i don't know what's more amazing, the engine? or the machine that cuts it...
Unbeleivable!!! I remember programming a Mori Seiki Mill with G & M codes (a 4th axis was a lifesaver in progressive operations).
I would not have believed technology has come this far in 15 years ...unless I watched this video.
What operation was the "5 axis" portion of the video performing?
Wow, beautiful to watch. Lots and lots of programmimg time on this one!
That is so awesome. I wonder if there are a lot of real-world applications for a high-precision CNC engine block. I bet the super-tight tolerances would make for some killer performance!
This is a fantastic vIdeo. Just think, now, 2011. With the advances in the CAM side of the operation, it could be even better. Plus a few advances in tooling too.
Totally amazing very impressed by this video. im just about to get into hobby cnc at home im setting up a seig x2 for cnc going to have four axis the three of the machine plus a rotary table setup on it using MACH3 really looking forward to using it...
Greetings Kriptonite2000,
It took a little under 119 hours of constant machining using 51 tools.
cheers
wow! that is extemely fast if it is is in real time, thanks for the vid man, very cool.