Responding to customers seeking solutions to optimise grinding cycles for their production needs, Anca has developed a tailored dressing solution in a software update with optimised dressing from solid through the removal of air passes.

This intelligent solution can help customers improve and streamline their production processes. Applications like tap, punch, keyhole punch and drill require a lot of in-process dressing on the machine, so customers will benefit significantly from this new software feature in terms of time and cost.

In the existing implementation of solid dressing, the final wheel profile is offset in the radial direction, such that the first pass only dresses the wheel by the specified infeed per pass. This method results in a significant amount of air dressing, where the dresser roll is not in contact with the grinding wheel. A particular customer request was to find a solution to reduce solid-dressing cycle time.

The solution was implemented by trimming sections of the dressing path that lie above the wheel radius, and increasing the feed rate of moves where the roll is not in contact with the grinding wheel.

This update is compatible with any machines offering wheel-dressing capability that are running the ToolRoom RN33.2 release onwards. The feature is available for all solid-dressing surface types, including form, periphery and segment dressing. Optimised dressing has replaced the existing implementation of dressing, which will no longer be available due to the longer cycle times. Optimisations will automatically be calculated for dressing a profile on to a new or flat-profile wheel, and only air dressing beyond the wheel radius will be optimised.

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