EXHIBITION SHOW ISSUE EMO 2019 HANOVER, 16-21 SEPTEMBER – WWW.EMO-HANNOVER.DE
applications). Over 100,000 items can be
found in the new complete catalogue,
published in July, while users can visit the
new online shop at cuttingtools.ceratizit.com
High Dynamic Turning and FreeTurn tools
from Ceratizit have already won several
international awards (Machinery article:
https://is.gd/rijuxa). This new turning
technology offers higher feedrates and a
longer tool service life, together with
shorter tool changing times and reduced
tool number requirement. A live
demonstration on a turn-mill centre on the
stand will see the unveiling of the rst
standard range of FreeTurn tools
ToolScope monitoring and assistance
system permanently stores the signals that
are generated by a machine during the
manufacturing process. This information is
visualised and used to monitor and
supervise the machine, with patented
statistical control processes employed to
depict the condition of the tool and the
machine. This not only enables targeted
wear and fracture monitoring to be carried
out, it also greatly reduces manufacturing
errors Visitors to the stand’s innovation
centre will also discover the potential
offered by the sensory ‘spike’ toolholder
from Pro-Micron and how ‘One Identity’ can
be used to clearly identify tools.
#inspection Creaform (Measurement
Solutions, https://is.gd/iruzul) Hall 6
Stand B71 3D scanning solutions and
scanning software for product development,
manufacturing, testing and automated
quality control, including the new
A common machine tool interface provides common understanding – The universal
machine tool interface (‘umati’) is big news at this year’s EMO. Driven by Germany’s
machine tool builders’ association, VDW, and eight well-known German machine tool
manufacturers and all major control suppliers, it uses the OPC UA existing standard that
speci es how communication is handled, but requires sector level, so-called companion
speci cations, which are required to connect at the information level. Umati is such a
companion standard and is under development, but the process is slow. At this EMO, a
simpli ed version of the umati companion speci cation’s draft is being employed to
connect machines from different manufacturers securely, seamlessly and effortlessly to a
customer’s IT systems.
The machines will connect to an aggregation server, typically installed on the
shop oor. On this server, data from all machines is grouped together and made available
to an OPC UA client in the destination application. Many clients (applications) will link to
this server – a special feature, since most machine tool participants themselves possess
a product for utilising the gathered data. In addition, relevant added-value service
providers like Adamos (www.adamos.com/en) or Symmedia (www.symmedia.de/en) will be
involved.
The data gathered will enable most of the 10 use-cases speci ed for rst version of
umati to be handled, which are: identi cation of machines from different manufacturers
(EMO showcase); quick overview of whether production is running (EMO showcase);
overview of the workpieces in the production order; overview of the runtimes of the
production order; overview of the machine’s operating status (EMO showcase); overview
of upcoming manual activities; malfunction/warning overview; providing information for
KPI analyses; drawing up consumption statistics for media and energy; obtaining an
overview of tool data.
Says Andreas Wohlfeld, lead architect smart factory at Trumpf: “Trumpf has for
several years now had its own in-house standard, in terms of OPC UA. We see umati as
the next logical step on the path leading to the cross-manufacturer smart factory.” And
speaking for Heller, Bernd Zapf, responsible for development new business and
technology, adds: “From Heller’s viewpoint, the current modelling status covers about
90% of our requirements.”
HandySCAN BLACK, the company’s
metrology-grade 3D scanner for all phases
of the manufacturing process, and the
MetraSCAN 3D-R, a robot-mounted optical
3D scanner that is part of its automated
quality control inspection suite.
#grinding Delta (RK International
Machine Tools, https://is.gd/akecub)
Hall 11 Stand B81 Mini 7 Diastep is a
travelling-column tangential grinding
machine with 800 by 550 mm table. It will
be tted with Delta’s Diastep PLC unit, but
CN Plus Touchscreen and Siemens
Sinumerik 840D SL control are also offered
Rotax 7 Compact Plus is a tangential
rotary table grinding machine with travelling
column and hydrostatic slideways. With its
700 mm diameter rotary, it is the smallest
machine in the Rotax range LC400 is
another rotary table grinding machine (400
mm diameter), which will be shown using
the L11E automation system, a micron-level
feeding device applied to the vertical axis.
#3D_printing #5-axis_machining
#automation #Industry_4.0
#machining_centres #turning DMG Mori
(https://is.gd/equmos) Hall 2 WH CELL, a
side-by-side automation solution for
machining centres in an enclosed cell
capable of handling parts up to a length of
300 mm, width of 300 mm, height of 220
mm and weight up to 25 kg (WH FLEX will
also feature: no details supplied) DMU
65 monoBLOCK universal machining centre
with a new AGV (automated guided vehicle)
and a stand-alone system for pallet
automation. This offers a exible
automation layout with free access to the
machine plus an intelligent safety concept
for human-machine collaboration (a total of
Creaform’s
HandySCAN
BLACK will be
on show
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