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Regrinding Precision meets efficiency: Fraisa cuts costs with grinding automation

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At the Fraisa location in Willich, Germany, 350,000 tools are reground every year. By applying grinding wheel data exchange between Anca grinding machines and Zoller measuring machines, the company has reduced idle times by 20 percent.

Fraisa in Willich reconditions 350,000 tools every year. The introduction of automated transfer of grinding wheel information and measurement results between Anca grinding machines and Zoller measuring machines has reduced non-productive time by 20 percent.(Source: Anca)
Fraisa in Willich reconditions 350,000 tools every year. The introduction of automated transfer of grinding wheel information and measurement results between Anca grinding machines and Zoller measuring machines has reduced non-productive time by 20 percent.
(Source: Anca)

It’s the same old story every day and the pressure is constantly increasing: the first tool must be in quality and rework must be avoided. Scrap must be avoided at all costs, because it is one of the major cost drivers. This applies to both the production of new tools and to regrinding.

To achieve this, it is essential to have a perfect grinding programme as well as valid information about grinding wheels and wheel packs. Anca provides a standardised interface for this in the Wheel Editor of Anca’s own Tool Room grinding software, which enables both the export of wheel information and the import of measurement results. These measurement results are the basis for all calculations that lead to a perfect tool in the first run. It does not matter whether the wheel data is managed locally or across multiple machines using Anca Wheel Server. This interface can be used to exchange all wheel information, such as diameter, wheel radius, wheel angle, flange size and other relevant information. The interface also offers the option of exchanging only individual parameters, such as flange size or diameter, for wear control. In this case, only this data is transferred via the network and measured. The results are also provided and transferred via the network.

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