Short description

In the 1970s, the company CMS introduced a CNC-controlled milling machine with the name 'Triax'. It was a heavy cantilever machine, which could be equipped with up to 4 separately controlled milling spindles. The term 'Triax' referred to the number of controlled axes, because at that time a controlled third axes (Z) was not common.

In 1998, CMS introduced a completely newly developed cantilever machine (in the years before, only gantry machines had been produced) and referred to the former cantilever model in the naming. However, the machine had not only got 3 axes but could be optionally equipped with up to 2 C-axes.

At launch, the machine with the then-futuristic design was equipped with several new developments of the company CMS, like for example a saddle-shaped aggregates support resting on the cantilever, which could be equipped with processing aggregates on both sides of the cantilever. This resulted in an unusual phenomenon in CNC-machining centres:

Since both aggregates had a distance of about 1 meter and thus, could cover a working range that was 1 m longer, the axis travel range in X was shorter than the table length in the first Triax version.

In 2002, the models Triax 4 (as smaller, inexpensive version) and Triax 4 S (as special version for window construction) were introduced. The previous model Triax was now called Triax 5.

In 2005, with the model Triax 4 MP, another simpler model version was introduced, for which again a new, futuristic design had been developed. This machine only still had one aggregates support on one side of the cantilever. In contrast to the other models of the Triax series, the configuration of the aggregates support was largely predetermined. All models of the Triax series were available with both pod and rail table and matrix table. The production of the Triax series was discontinued in 2008; the only remaining cantilever machine of the manufacturer CMS is the model Pentax.

Technical data

Triax/Triax 5

• Working range 5.220 x 1.530 mm
• Passage height Z up to 280 mm
• To equip the aggregates support, a router head with 8 kW, a lock case milling aggregate, a drilling unit with 11 - 28 drills, a groove saw, up to 2 C-axes, and on both sides, traveling along disc tool changers in X and Y were available.

Triax 4/Triax 4 S

• Working range 3.600/5.000/7.500 x 1.370 mm
• Passage height Z up to 280 mm
• There was the possibility for 4 mounting slots at the aggregates support: 2 fixedly equipped with router head and tool changer, 2 freely configurable with drilling units with 11 - 28 boring spindles, saw aggregate, lock case milling aggregate, up to 2 C-axes, the model Triax 4 S with additional stationary disc tool changer for large tools, clamping systems for window and door processing as well as with additional software for window construction

Triax 4 MP

• Working range 3.600/5.000/7.500 x 1.450 mm
• Passage height Z up to 250 mm
• Configuration of the aggregates support: working spindle with 8 kW, 12-fold disc tool changer - traveling along in X and Y
• Optionally available were a drilling boring block with 26 drills, an additional vertical router head and a saw aggregate swivelable between 0 - 90 degrees.