Optimized Contour Milling (OCM) gives you nearly unlimited trochoidal milling possibilities. After you’ve defined the contour, the control automatically calculates the best trochoidal milling strategy, letting you apply this highly efficient milling process to a much wider range of workpieces for greater productivity and less tool wear.

The Digital Shop Floor from HEIDENHAIN bundles hardware, software, consulting, and services for digitalizing your entire production operation. These solutions can be combined as needed and don’t require cloud computing. Based on HEIDENHAIN expertise in shopfloor processes, the Digital Shop Floor gives small to medium-sized companies a digital 360° view of their processes, from initial quoting to quality control and shipment.

Do you use a HEIDENHAIN control at your workplace? Then the TNC Club is the place for you! Here you can converse with experts, develop yourself through training courses, and network with like-minded people. We’re looking forward to meeting you in person. And not just in Germany and Italy, but also in the Netherlands, France, and the UK.

Benefit from in-process tool and workpiece inspection. At EMO, HEIDENHAIN will be introducing the new TS 760 as an even more accurate variant of the familiar TS 460 workpiece touch probe. HEIDENHAIN developed the TS 750 specifically for inspecting the workpiece within the machine envelope during grinding operations. From inside the machine tool, the VT 121 ensures that tools are in proper condition for delivering perfect machining results.

How good is the positioning accuracy of your rotary table or tilting axis? The new convenient RVM 4000 comparator measuring system from HEIDENHAIN provides a fast and accurate answer. Its optical scale drum is positioned on the table via a mounting fixture or a machine-specific adapter. The scanning unit is inserted into the spindle via a tool holder. Once the RVM 4000 is connected to a PC via the EIB 700, measurement can begin. The RVM 4000 can attain a system accuracy of better than one arc second but still features generous mounting tolerances. The ACCOM 4.0 PC software enables data recording and standards-based analysis with intuitive user guidance. Acceptance testing in accordance with ISO 230-2, for example, becomes easy to perform on the shop floor. 

The new ERM 6000 Dplus encoder monitors the milling process directly at the spindle. The collected data can then be analyzed, interpreted, and visualized, providing meaningful information about the spindle and even the tool. The result: reliable processes during unattended shifts, prolonged tool and machine run times, and optimal maintenance management

Motors have a major impact on the accuracy and surface quality of machine tools. Key criteria include the motor’s maximum torque, the amount of torque ripple, and the inertia ratio between the motor and its load, all of which are optimally matched in the motors of HEIDENHAIN and ETEL.