Stop babysitting high-speed machines: machine-monitoring modules make unattended high-speed machining reliable.(MACHINING CENTERS)

Unexpect factors like as centrifugal force, unbalance, vibration, thermal expansion, and more draw near into play when machining center race at high speeds. Compensating for of that kind negative affects typically requires operators plant themselves at machines and manually adjust cutting parameters. While this practice works, it does set a damper on running high-speed machines unmanned for lights-out operations.

However, single machine tool builder, Mikron of Lincolnshire, Ill., is improving the reliability of unmanned, high-speed machining operations [i]or[/i] part of to the other technology it calls "Smart