Given industry’s growing use of the IoT and the emergence of smart factories, potential machine tool customers are increasingly looking to purchase cutting-edge manufacturing aids with ‘smart’ controls and enhanced connectivity capabilities.

One such progressive company is Surrey-based T&G Engineering, which recently installed the UK’s first Studer S31 universal cylindrical grinding machine to feature the new United Grinding C.O.R.E. (Customer-Oriented REvolution) operating system.

T&G’s engineering director Tong Smyth says: “The Studer S31 universal cylindrical grinding machine was ordered because of the ever increasing amount of high-precision cylindrical grinding we need to perform. As we have done in the past, before our latest Studer purchase we liaised closely with Peter Harding, the managing director of Advanced Grinding Supplies, the exclusive Studer agent in the south of England and Wales. This co-operation ensured that we specified our new Studer machine to suit our exacting requirements.”

He adds: “In keeping with our policy of ordering machine tools featuring technology that will aid efficiency, our new Studer grinder uses United Grinding’s latest C.O.R.E. operating system. C.O.R.E. is now incorporated into our in-house digital communication and production systems, further improving our programming and grinding efficiency levels.”

Thanks to the uniform C.O.R.E. software architecture, exchanging data between United Grinding machines is now effortless. The integrated system’s universal machine technology interface (umati) can also communicate with third-party systems, while also providing access to United Grinding’s Digital Solutions products directly on the machine without requiring the installation of additional hardware.

The C.O.R.E. panel has a logical design and uses self-explanatory icons, allowing the operator to navigate through the machine’s menu and process steps intuitively.
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