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Control systems, DROs, etc, for machine tools
News Release from: Newall Measurement Systems | Subject: DP900 digital readout
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2007
Powerful DRO has dynamic tool position
display
A very powerful digital readout unit for manual lathe and milling machine applications offers dynamic tool position display and 4-axis (linear and rotary) simultaneous readout.
Newall Measurement Systems exhibited its DP900 digital readout (DRO) for manual lathe and milling machine applications at the recent SPS automation technology exhibition The DP900 is the company's most powerful DRO to date
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its new graphical LCD-based display offers ease-of-use and a host of advanced functionality.
Interactive features on the DP900 include dynamic tool position display and 4-axis (linear and rotary) simultaneous readout.
The DP900 can associate up to 20 jobs for each function: such as arc contouring, bolt hole (PCD), grid array and many more.
* Internal summing - another feature of this innovative unit is internal summing.
It allows a milling machine operator to sum knee and quill axes within the display without the need for additional complexity or the expense of an external summing unit when using three of 4-axis versions.
New features specific to the DP900 are centred around the new blue-on-white LCD display.
These include a graphical dynamic tool position display, a zero approach graphical display with optional audio alert, a virtual keypad to allow user-defined job names and one touch HELP.
The DP900 also has the standard features found on most of the Newall DRO range, such as linear and segmented error compensation, mill/lathe selection, vectoring, tapering, tool offsets and axis preset.
Visitor's to Newall's stand (6-234) will also learn that the DP900 is available in a number of different axis configurations, including 2- and 3-axis, as well 4-axis.
There is also the configuration using a touch probe or 3+1-axis with probe (the fourth axis can be used with Newall's Spherosyn encoder technology or for RS422 (TTL) linear/rotary feedback).
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