ANCA showcases technology at GrindingHub

By Bhalchandra Chorghade, Editor, CNCTimes.com

At GrindingHub, at Messe Stuttgart, ANCA will showcase its technology range, which enables customers to grow capacity, improve profit margins and gain efficiencies. Deciding what technology to invest in should be driven by business goals, working with existing objectives, processes, data and ideas.

CPX in-process OD measurement

The CPX in-process OD measurement system is a quality control system that monitors and controls the OD of ground blanks within a batch production.

Batch grinding on a CPX with high-material removal rates and meeting tight tolerances is a basic function of the machine. The OD measurement system takes it further by utilizing the SPC feature that comes standard with the OD measurement software. SPC is user defined, and the tolerances along with the Cp and CpK values are constantly monitored, controlled, and reported to the user.

The OD measurement system is permanently mounted inside the machine and only called upon when required, based on the set tolerances and the frequency of measurement. An accurate in-process measurement and compensation is applied to maintain the blank OD to the nominal diameter.

The system has the ability to handle multiple diameters in one setup, making it suitable for complex blank geometries/shapes and longer batch runs, the company says.

AIMS

The Industry 4.0 technology considers a factory as a single machine, rather than separating it into many different elements of design, blank preparation, grinding, laser marking, washing, packing and shipment.

AIMS is a modular solution that can be deployed in stages that allow for a gradual and smooth transition from traditional to automated and integrated manufacturing.

An AIMS manufacturing cell will be displayed at GrindingHub, demonstrating a fully automatic process of tool manufacturing starting from the pallet with blanks and finishing with pallets with ground tools. 

The GrindingHub demo consists of the following components:

• AutoSet – preparation station, it is a main operator interface. Jobs scheduled for production are downloaded through the AIMS Server to the AutoSet station and are prepared for production here, pallets are being loaded with blanks for further automatic process
• AutoFetch – AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) responsible for material transfer between processes replacing operators carrying pallets or individual tools between machines/processes. The AutoFetch robot will transfer full pallets with blanks to the respective grinder, will pick up an individual tool from a grinder for out-of-process measurement and compensation and then will pick up a pallet of finished tools and transfer it to the Finished Goods area
• MX7 Linear grinder equipped with AutoLine Advanced loader (Robomate 2 loader with AIMS kit installed), allowing for accepting pallets presented by the AutoFetch
• Zoller Genius with Zoller AutoLine Advanced responsible for out-of-process measurement of individual tools from a batch being manufactured. Measurement values are transferred to the respective grinder and compensation of grinding parameters is taking place based on individual customers tolerance settings.

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