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!
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
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 RUclips, thanks so much.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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
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
@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
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
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
@wyskasses Demonstrating the capabilities of a Matsuura 5-axis. Have you ever attended a machine tool show? They've got set-ups similar to this all over the place. A man can spend a whole day at a tool show and still not get tired of looking around.
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.
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.
amazing! and quite beautiful too, watching the thing emerge from a solid billet. Surely the bores would have to be machined to a higher tolerance after this? and the head skimmed?
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!
@JordanianPride80 You mean cylinder head (different component to an engine block) or the drill bit in the CNC machine? I imagine if the drill bit broke it'd just pause until it was replaced, then resume.
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?
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.
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!!!!
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
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
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.
the casting tent to have more residual stress due to the pouring, the billet tends to have less residual stress due to that it is formed in a block and not in a certain shape, when a metal in casted the grain structures get all crazy, when they pour the billet it lets the grains run in a more natural uniform shape.
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.
Some high performance engine blocks are machined instead of cast. It has something to do with the stresses created during the casting process, and also what material is being used for the block.
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.
@WinkenBlinkenAndNod yeah its something about the grain in billet lining up much better then in cast, cast is pretty much just poured into a mold, and gravity does the rest, while a billet block is formed in a die, it must have something to do with the pressures when the die strikes i looked it up, billet is not always stronger then forged parts, a cheap billet part wont be as strong as a high quality forged part. forged is die formed as well, but in the basic shape of the finished part
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.
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.
In the past 10 years , i watch this video and, i m still love for this piece of Art !
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.
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.
Quite possibly the most complex and intricate machining operation I have ever seen.
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.
That is one of the most beautiful engine blocks i've 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!
Hell Of A Program, You Really Can't Beat The 5 Axis CNC Machining Centers.
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.
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!
Incredible.
What's really amazing is the table starts moving at 6:37.
Awesome video, love the sound of the chips hitting the glass. Very intense programing there.
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.
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
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 RUclips, thanks so much.
This is the reason why I'm studying a machining techlonogy. It's so astonishing
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!
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!
Man it is amazing how all the stuff around us is built.
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.
I love technology, i cant imagine that this job was done by human hand, it took sooooo long
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.
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.
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
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
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
fantastic CNC milling machine..
6:38 is the wonderful process, 5 axis work in the same time!
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
Sorry to disapoint you, but this is a real engine that really does work.
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!
i was impressed when i realised that they even machined in the water galleries, meaning that it could be a functioning engine :)
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。
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
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!
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
@staM034 i think by the looks it is just smoothing the bore so that it doesn't damage piston rings.
oh man thats a nice piece of kit, i cant even convince my boss to get us digital readouts on our twin arbor mill!!!
@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
with the amount of money a block of aluminum that size costs, there is no trial and error. master cam is a beautiful program.
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
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.
Finding such machines like these beautiful makes me?
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!
man i'd live to have a block like that in my car, machined to near perfection.
Impressive....
That's a work of art.
you see the coolant being constantly poured, thats what makes it cooler
I want the job of watching that stuff all day and get paid for it.
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!!
Wow, that is some masterful programming there.
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
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
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.
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.
Surprisingly & re-assuringly cost effective.
Thanks
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...
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.
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.
amazing! fantastic! it holds the block like a book
Now record this in 4k please.
:)
Wow, just incredible how they did the engine
офигенно. когда-нибудь на автовазе появятся такие станки :)
@wyskasses Demonstrating the capabilities of a Matsuura 5-axis. Have you ever attended a machine tool show? They've got set-ups similar to this all over the place. A man can spend a whole day at a tool show and still not get tired of looking around.
just amazing! i have a feeling that some day it may replace casting
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.
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.
amazing! and quite beautiful too, watching the thing emerge from a solid billet. Surely the bores would have to be machined to a higher tolerance after this? and the head skimmed?
Amazing. I wonder how they do the water jacket for coolant ?
The dancing is 5 axis cutting a grove awound the cylinder that recessed in to the wall.
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!
Wow, beautiful to watch. Lots and lots of programmimg time on this one!
Well if I win the powerball, I'm buying one of those. Very interesting video. Awesum performing CNC.
@JordanianPride80 You mean cylinder head (different component to an engine block) or the drill bit in the CNC machine? I imagine if the drill bit broke it'd just pause until it was replaced, then resume.
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?
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.
@bignaughtydog well I know almost nothing about cnc but I believe the two other "axis" are the rotation axis of the machine head.
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!!!!
bellissimo video... sembra incredibile la precisione
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
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...
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 porn has the best music I have heard in a while!
Disco at 6:40 > 8:10
Really amazing watching a block getting made :D
the casting tent to have more residual stress due to the pouring, the billet tends to have less residual stress due to that it is formed in a block and not in a certain shape, when a metal in casted the grain structures get all crazy, when they pour the billet it lets the grains run in a more natural uniform shape.
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.
Some high performance engine blocks are machined instead of cast. It has something to do with the stresses created during the casting process, and also what material is being used for the block.
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.
this is the second time i have watched this and its still great!!!!
@WinkenBlinkenAndNod yeah its something about the grain in billet lining up much better then in cast,
cast is pretty much just poured into a mold, and gravity does the rest, while a billet block is formed in a die, it must have something to do with the pressures when the die strikes
i looked it up, billet is not always stronger then forged parts, a cheap billet part wont be as strong as a high quality forged part. forged is die formed as well, but in the basic shape of the finished part
wow that end mill is cutting through that metal like a knife through butter. very cool shit
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.
I would like to know the tooling used. With that length and feedrate it cuts fairly well