Amada EMK-3610NT
Turret Sleeving

Amada EMK-3610NT at a glance

Era

2007-present

Tonnage

33 ton

Stations

58

Turret

Thick turret

Control

AMNC-F PC

The EM family has been in production since 2003 and continues today. These are current machines, and turret wear on them is a function of utilisation rather than age.

Where this machine is in its life

The EMK-3610NT is a current-generation machine (2007-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 EMK-3610NT turret wears

At 33 tons, the EMK-3610NT 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 58 stations, work is spread across a wide turret, which is why wear on these machines is so rarely uniform. In practice a handful of stations carry the common tools and wear out well ahead of the rest. Most EMK-3610NT jobs are partial as a result — the worn stations are sleeved and the sound ones are left alone, which keeps both cost and downtime down.

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 EMK-3610NT 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 EMK-3610NT 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.

Is the EMK-3610NT a thick or thin turret machine?

The EMK-3610NT 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.

Turret configuration for the EMK-3610NT

One turret layout is documented for the EMK-3610NT. Amada sold the same model number with different tooling over its production life, so the station count is still worth reading off the machine rather than assuming it. This is the configuration on record:

A–E are Amada tool-station sizes: A ½″, B 1¼″, C 2″, D 3½″, E 4½″. A blank size column means the station and auto-index totals are confirmed but the factory A–E mix is not — we would rather leave it open than guess it.

Confirm before you quote. We verify the turret from the serial number or a photograph before pricing any sleeving, whatever the paperwork says. Send us the serial number and we will confirm what is actually in your EMK-3610NT, and how many stations that means. Send us the serial number.

How the EMK-3610NT compares

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

• Amada EMK-3612 M2 — stations 55, 58, 67 or 70 · auto-index 4 A/I on the 55 and 58; 2 A/I on the 67 and 70 · tonnage 33 ton.
• Amada EMK-3510NT — stations 58 · auto-index 4 A/I · tonnage 33 ton.
• Amada EMZ-3610NT — stations 45-70 · auto-index 2/4 A/I · tonnage 33 ton.
• Amada EM-2510 — stations 45 · auto-index 4 A/I · tonnage 22 ton.
• Amada EM 3612 ZRTe — stations 32, 36 or 40 · auto-index 4 A/I on the 32-station turret; 2 on the 36 and 40 · tonnage 30 ton.
• Amada EMZ-3510NT — stations 45-70 · auto-index 2/4 A/I · tonnage 33 ton.
• Amada EMK-3510 M2 — stations 55, 58, 67 or 70 · auto-index 4 A/I on the 55 and 58; 2 A/I on the 67 and 70 · tonnage 33 ton.
• Amada EM-2510NT — stations 45 or 58 · auto-index 4 A/I on the 45-station turret; 2 on the 58 · tonnage 22 ton.
• Amada EM-2510 MII — stations 44/4AI, 45/4AI, 49/2AI or 58/2AI · auto-index 2 or 4, per configuration · tonnage 22 ton.
• Amada EM-2612 MII — stations 44/4AI, 45/4AI, 49/2AI or 58/2AI · auto-index 2 or 4, per configuration · tonnage 22 ton.
• Amada EML-3610NT — stations 58 · tonnage 33 ton · control Fanuc AMNC NT.
• Amada EMLK-3610NT — stations 58 King · tonnage 33 ton · control AMNC NT.
• Amada EM-3510 ZRTe — stations 32 · auto-index 4 A/I · tonnage 30 ton.
• Amada EM-3612 ZRBe — stations 32 · auto-index 4 A/I · tonnage 30 ton.
• Amada EM-3510ZRB — stations 32, 36 or 40 · auto-index 4 A/I on the 32-station turret; 2 on the 36 and 40 · tonnage 30 ton.

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 EMK-3610NT runs the AMNC-F PC 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 EMK-3610NT 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: EMK-3610NT parts list index — 5,715 numbers across 41 sections.

Full libraries: manuals and parts lists.