Editorial Automated machine tool
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Increasing variant diversity due to customer-specific solutions or components, greater product complexity and fast delivery times are forcing machine tool users to rethink.
The shortage of skilled workers and demographic change also play a role here. The degree of automation in production is increasing and with it the networking of individual production steps. Automated machine tools provide the necessary flexibility in the production hall. A reason for SCOPE to devote itself to this topic in the special issue "Automated machine tools".
Software plays a decisive role in production. In the meantime, a trend from consumer electronics has established itself in production: We are talking about apps. They are available with a wide variety of functions. Okuma has developed an app for the dressing process together with Dr. Kaiser Diamantwerkzeuge. The dressing app is operated directly from the main control unit and calculates all dressing parameters.
When you think of an automated machine tool, you usually think of robots. Robots can be used to load machine tools, but also to process workpieces. Read this article to find out how CNC robots and CNC-R machine tools can work together.
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