Small to Medium Machine Tool Retrofit

CNC Design has retrofitted hundreds of small to medium sized machine tools in Australia and South East Asia region.

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Machine types include milling, turning, machining centre, copy milling conversion, and punching/nibbling machines. These machines are widely used in jobshop industries, general engineering fabrication plants, automotive component manufaturers, and die & mould industries.

CNC Design has well known expertise in CNC Retrofit since 1984.

Key Advantages of CNC Retrofiting

Do you remember how slow your first computer was? With limited memory and software reliability. Technology in CNC Controls have moved ahead similarly, giving you immense practical benefits.

Retrofitting your machines gives you:

• Higher productivity with new CNC programming and interpolation functions
• Increased accuracy and surface finish due to new digital servo drives and high speed cutting technology
• User friendly conversational programming and simulation with graphical support.
• Ease of operation and maintenance with modern fault monitoring and diagnostics.
• Network-capability over ethernet including remote diagnostic feature via internet
• Customized solution for your application.
• Tool Management software
• Part probing and gauging
• Longterm local support for spare part, field service and service contract
• Savings on foundations and tooling compared to a new machine.
  

Solution

It goes without saying, the cost effective machines are leading the competitions. This is where Siemens Digital CNC Control SINUMERIK 802D and SINUMERIK 810D naturally fit themselves into the market segment of compact machine tools. In many applications, SINUMERIK 840D/840Di can be tailored to suit the requirement in your medium size machines.

CNC Design has developed retrofit packages for compact machines based on SINUMERIK 802D and SINUMERIK 810D application. The world proven servodrive SIMODRIVE 611U/Ue/D is used in conjunction with Siemens 1FT6/1FK6/1FK7 axis servomotors and 1PH7 spindle motor to perform the motions. Tool management program for various type of tool magazines have been enabled to give your compact machines better productivity.

Siemens Jobshop programming language, Shopmill and Shopturn are the key feature to inject the easy to use graphical part programming in to your compact and medium size machines. In addition, Siemens encoders and 3rd party linear scales are used to ensure the level of accuracy for particular applications.

The mechanics of older machines may still be in good condition or may require re-conditioning. CNC Design has the capacity to supply both electrical and mechanical aspects of your compact machines retrofit. A turnkey solution!