Grinding machine monitoring

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Increased productivity and reduced maintenance costs are key elements of an economic process. The optimum solution is real-time control of events not belonging to workpiece machining or machine conditions. Controlling events such as the grinding wheel - workpiece, grinding wheel - dresser approach speeds and dressing depth of the machine, increases the productivity.

Conditions:

• Do you need to shorten grinding cycle?
• Do you need to increase grinder safety?
• Do you need to improve dressing cycle?
• Do you need to optimize dressing of CBN wheel?
• Do you need to reduce grinding cost?
• Do you need to save maintenance cost?

Solution:

MARPOSS supplies a wide range of system monitoring for grinding machines based on acoustic emission technology, able to satisfy various requirements including continuous process control and air gap check, dressing, grinding wheel and workpiece collision. All the heads are connectable to electronic instruments that processes and display the signals.

Benefits:

• Air Gap eliminator reduces cycle time optimizing the change of feed rate
• Part collision control eliminates the risk of catastrophic damages to operator, wheel and machine
• DRESSING control detects the contact wheel-dresser to speed up the dressing cycle and avoid damages to the wheel
• Due to the extreme cutting condition and the high cost of the abrasive, CBN wheels require a specific acoustic analyzer to optimize the dressing operation
• System monitoring reduces cost of grinding operation, saving wheel abrasive
• System monitoring increases safety of the working personal and prevent damages and heavy maintenance costs