Tool Automation
Tool Automation
Enable Continuous Machining in High Tool Demand
Do you need a lot of cutting tools to run your NC-programs? Do tool changes eat your machining time? Does your team need to constantly work for sufficient tooling? Do you have errors in tool loading?
Tool automation is the solution to eliminate the above inefficiencies – it stores large number of cutting tools centrally and transfers them to machining centers just in time. With tool automation, you can extend your lights-out machining capacity, secure tool availability, reduce errors, and minimize your capital investment in cutting tools and magazine pots.
What Is Tool Automation?
The idea of tool automation is to transfer cutting tools between a central tool storage, your machining centers and maintenance – just in time. This means three things:
1.All your machining centers can share the same set of tools – you need less sister tools. Since you store most of the tools outside your machine, you can purchase smaller machine tool magazines.
2.Tools can be brought in the magazine during the NC-program – your machine starts running once it has the first tools. You can count the robot to bring in the later needed tools while the NC-program proceeds.
3.Worn-out tools are automatically delivered to tool maintenance – your team has one easy and ergonomic access point to tools, and full visibility on which tools need to be preset by when.