CNC specialist NUM is helping Grupo Plasma Automation – one of Latin America’s top fabrication equipment manufacturers – to develop an innovative high speed laser cutting machine that uses real-time adaptive height control to accelerate throughput.

CNC specialist NUM has launched digital twin technology that enables machine tool manufacturers to reduce their time to market dramatically, by using powerful Industry 4.0 simulation techniques.

US cutting tool manufacturer McQuade Industries, Inc., has gained a highly cost-effective productivity advantage by implementing a CNC upgrade program for a line of 5-axis insert grinders. The upgraded machines are much easier to set up and operate, which has enabled the company to shave more than ten minutes per part off the production time of complex geometry cutting tools.

32-year-old insert grinders given new lease of life – and production times now reduced by 10 minutes per part.

The NUMgear Profile Grinding Technology Module for Involutes and Technology Module for Cycloids are set between user input from an HMI and the CNC. It takes the gear and tool data as input and calculates the shape of the gear tooth as well as the path of the dresser to create the corresponding grinding wheel.

Non-circular grinding is used in a wide variety of automated manufacturing applications, such as the production of camshafts, crankshafts, cams and eccentric shafts. However, it is an extremely complex task, because the non-circular contour leads to constantly changing engagement and movement conditions between the grinding wheel and the workpiece.