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News Release from: Fritz Studer | Subject: StuderNC V5.x NC grinding system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 July 2002
Grinding cycle programs now easier to
set up
A CNC grinding machine builder has now included cycle programming in its control system, permitting very easy programming for grinding any type of workpiece by the aid of pictogramming.
Experience, market observation and feedback from our customers has encouraged us to develop the existing and proven StuderNC basic package further The package includes cycle programming, permitting very easy programming for grinding any type of workpiece by the aid of pictogramming
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new version V5.x of StuderNC also features the calculation of grinding process data.
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This includes machining data as well as time and cost calculation.
All the other software packages, StProfil, StForm, StPunch and StThread are related to functions and can be called up as per requirements.
Philosophy - in our engineering work we made great efforts to create advantages for our customers.
Our aim was, comparable to StPunch (Software for grinding non-round punches), to integrate the grinding technology in order to guarantee reproducibility, to ensure constant high quality and to reduce grinding times as much as possible.
Data storage should be workpiece-related and logically clear and straightforward for the user.
The idea was to preserve the customer's know-how and to call up the respective data later in order to adapt it to the new machining task.
The process of component machining has been made transparent in every detail in order to make use of all the optimising potential.
This is definitely the only method for increasing the efficiency continuously: preserving the proven know-how and to make it accessible to any other user a later date.
,Look and feel" This means: the appearance and operation correspond as much as possible to the commercial Windows applications as they are known in conjunction with Microsoft products.
High operator ergonomics was one of our main goals.
The integrated grinding technology improves the efficiency of the machine considerably.
Experience based on practical work in the range of fine machining by cylindrical grinding have proved that rather often the operators of grinding machines work with values resulting from their experience, which is astonishingly far away from the optimum.
So-called machining tasks which can be defined by our customer's or by our own specialists help to produce components in a constantly good quality and time independently from the operator who carries out the job.
A machining task defines the behaviour of a certain grinding tool in a specific material.
By doing so, the coolant, the rigidity of the component, the machinability of the material and many other factors can be taken into consideration.
By increasing the quality of the optimisation of machining tasks, the optimising times can be reduced considerably for new, similar workpieces.
For the production of individual parts and series, one will always be able to operate with former, highly optimised data for the same combination of tool and material.
This will reduce the running-in times to a level corresponding to that of same components which are machined repeatedly.
By indicating the exact time of each individual process, those for dressing and traversing as well as the auxiliary times such as longitudinal positioning by means of a length positioning, one should obtain information about the productivity.
The calculation should give accurate information for the quotation.
In addition, the calculation of costs can go much further than that based merely on the grinding time for a component.
For instance, tooling expenses have to be taken into account.
This is extremely important for job planning and for quotations.
* Dressing: Rough dressing cycles to profile, respectively reprofiling grinding wheels - for profiling, new rough dressing cycles are now at disposal.
Roughing means - similarly as for milling or turning - creating an optimal assignment of cuts in order to remove as much material as possible in the shortest possible time.
By doing so, the set-up times are reduced to a fraction compared to those of the conventional method.
* The advantages - by using StuderNC and the respective options for profiling and dressing the grinding wheels as well as for thread grinding and grinding non-round sections of components, the customers gain an extremely significant increase of functionality for their universal cylindrical grinding machine.
In the simplest case this means that set-up, programming and grind-ing times will be reduced considerably.
In other cases, it may even be possible to avoid the use of special machines, such as thread and cam grinding machines.
Partially, the same also applies to special clamping features such as eccentric chucks.
From this point of view, the investment will certainly be written off in a very short time.
* Range of applications - the range of application of StuderNC is also intended for the real grinding Professional.
The system is completely open and allows changes in every section.
However, this product is useful even for the inexperienced user who, thanks to this application, can operate with little grinding-specific know-how.
Also standard Macro's defined in advance by Studer cover a wide range of components.
In addition, this software is also useful for the job planning, namely for establishing quotations and process data for the proper production.
Via the Ethernet connection, data is written directly into the NC memory of the machine.
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