High-speed milling cutter system and method for producing metallic guide elements

A high-speed milling cutter system, said high-speed milling cutter system comprising a position-controlled milling cutter head with milling disks of a great diameter of at least 600 mm and further comprising a stacking device comprised of a first manipulator and a second manipulator and turning stations, for producing metallic guide elements having a functional area by milling hot-formed profiled blanks in said high-speed milling cutter system by said position-controlled milling cutter head with said milling disks of said great diameter, wherein the hot-formed profiled blanks are matched with regard to a cross-sectional mass distribution of the profiled blanks, respectively, to the subsequent milling step such that by a partial cutting removal of the profiled blanks the functional area of the guide elements to be produced are produced with narrow dimensional tolerances, and by controlling autonomously a material flow of the profiled blanks within said high-speed milling cutter system by said stacking device comprised of said first manipulator and said second manipulator and said turning stations;

• wherein a first one of said turning stations is arranged at a feed side of said milling cutter head and a second one of said turning stations is arranged at an exit side of said milling cutter head;
• wherein said first manipulator is arranged at said feed side and supplies the profiled blanks in a first direction to said milling cutter head for a first milling step;
• wherein said second manipulator is arranged at said exit side and transports the profiled blanks after said first milling step from said milling cutter head in said first direction to said second turning station;
• wherein said second manipulator transports the profiled blanks from said second turning station in a second direction opposite to said first direction to said milling cutter head for a second milling step;
• wherein said first manipulator transports the profiled blanks after said first milling step in a second direction opposite to said first direction to said first turning station when said second manipulator is busy transporting.