Amada ACIES 2515T
Turret Sleeving

Amada ACIES 2515T at a glance

Era

2010s-present

Tonnage

33 ton

Stations

32/4AI, 36/2AI or 40/2AI

Turret

Thick turret

Auto-Index

2 or 4, per configuration

Control

AMNC 3i

This group collects Amada’s smaller and specialist turret machines: the compact Aries line, the eight-station Octo, and the heavier Vela II. All are long out of production, and for most of them no replacement exists to buy — which is precisely when restoring the turret you already own stops being a choice and starts being the only option.

Where this machine is in its life

The ACIES 2515T is a current-generation machine (2010s-present). If yours is showing turret wear, it is not because the machine is old — it is because it has been working. High-utilisation machines reach the same bore wear in a fraction of the calendar time.

On a machine this current, the dominant cost is not the repair. It is the production you lose while it is out, which is why the work is done on your floor in days rather than the machine going anywhere.

How an ACIES 2515T turret wears

At 33 tons, the ACIES 2515T sits in the workhorse band — mixed duty, mixed material, and usually the machine a shop reaches for first. That versatility is also why its turret wears: it runs the widest range of work, and the stations holding the most-used tools take a disproportionate share of the hits.

With 32/4AI, 36/2AI or 40/2AI stations, an ACIES 2515T turret usually shows wear concentrated in the positions running the most common tooling. Sleeving does not have to be all-or-nothing — the worn stations are done and the rest are left as they are.

The tell is always the same: the fault stays with the station rather than following the tool. Move a tool that is producing bad parts to another station — if it runs clean there, the bore is worn, and new tooling will not change that. See holes out of round, burring on punched parts or punches dulling too fast for the full diagnosis.

What sleeving an ACIES 2515T involves

Each worn bore is machined to a precise oversize and a hardened USA-made steel sleeve is installed with a precision slip fit and secured with retaining compound, restoring the station to Amada factory tolerance — typically within 0.0002″. Engineers travel to you; the ACIES 2515T never ships. 2–3 days of downtime, typically $8,000–$25,000 depending on scope. After the first install your own maintenance staff can replace sleeves in future.

Set against $100,000–$500,000+ for a replacement machine — see sleeve or replace, including where replacing genuinely wins.

Auto-index on this machine

The ACIES 2515T carries 2 or 4, per configuration. Auto-index stations rotate tooling in 0.01° increments through gears, bearings and a rotary encoder mechanism — all in constant motion, all wearing. Symptoms are angular drift, indexing errors, alarm codes and parts punched off-angle.

TSI rebuilds them completely and calibrates before sign-off, routinely in the same visit as sleeving. Auto-index refurbishment · diagnosing angle errors.

Is the ACIES 2515T a thick or thin turret machine?

The ACIES 2515T is a thick turret machine. Thick and thin describe the turret, not automatically the tooling — the two are quoted separately, and a machine has to be identified on both counts before sleeves or tooling are ordered.

Tonnage will not tell you either: several 22-ton Amada machines run thick turrets. If you are not certain what your press carries, send us the model and serial number and we will confirm it. See also thick vs thin turret and how Amada model numbers work.

How the ACIES 2515T compares

Punch-laser combination flagship, rated 33 ton, built with 32/4AI, 36/2AI or 40/2AI turret configurations — confirm which one your press carries from the serial plate before quoting a turret job. — that is what sets this machine apart on the spec sheet.

These machines are easy to mix up, and the difference matters when you are quoting a turret job. Against the other punch-laser combination models we cover:

• Amada Apelio — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc.
• Amada Apelio II 357 — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc 05PLA.
• Amada Apelio III 357V — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc 16-L.
• Amada Apelio III 367V — stations 58 · tonnage 30 ton · control Fanuc 16-L.
• Amada Apelio III 2510V — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc FS-16LB.
• Amada Apelio III 2610V — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc 16-L.
• Amada EML-2515 AJ — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control AMNC 3i.
• Amada LC-2515 AJ — stations 58 · tonnage 22 ton · control AMNC NT.

Sleeving is the same process across all of them. What changes is scope, and scope follows station count and how hard the machine has been run.

Beyond the turret

The ACIES 2515T runs the AMNC 3i control — current-generation, and not usually a candidate for retrofit. Where a machine of this age needs more than turret work, it is normally wear items: X/Y ball screws, LM guide rails, clutch and brake, work holder clamps, guide keys, springs and collars. All covered under complete overhaul, on-site, in the same visit.

Amada ACIES 2515T documentation

Free. The first few downloads need nothing; after that we ask which machine you are working on. Larger parts lists are scanned documents — worth being on Wi-Fi.

Every part number in that book is on this site too, section by section: ACIES 2515T parts list index — 20,558 numbers across 78 sections.

Full libraries: manuals and parts lists.