Studer celebrates 1000th S33 universal cylindrical grinding machine

Now located in the Körber Schleifring India (KSI), this unit will demonstrate its capabilities to customers and interested visitors, until its sale in a year's time. Helping it to stand out, Swiss Airbrush Champion Philipp Klopfenstein sprayed a special design onto the body of the 1000th Studer S33 Studer says it was was the first to succeed in employing several grinding wheels on one and the same machine, with the foundation of today's S33 laid in 1996, with the S30leanPRO. This machine became well known as a compact, easy-to-operate and flexible universal cylindrical grinding machine, with two external grinding wheels and one belt-driven internal grinding wheel, Studer says. An innovation at that time was the creation of grinding and dressing programs using pictogramming - operator prompting via icons, without recourse to G-code, developed and patented by Studer. In 2000, the eco650 was designed, specifically for the American market. It was simple and well priced. An external grinding machine for beginners, customers could configure and mount their own accessory kits on a standard machine. Then, in 2003, based on the S30leanPRO and the eco650, Studer designed a new cost-competitive universal machine, aimed at subcontractors. Two centre distances, 650 and 1,000 mm, plus external and internal cylindrical grinding on a rotatable grinding head for machining parts in a single clamping. The product was upgraded twice with additional functionality during its life cycle. Over time, market-specific variants of the S33 were developed - the KC33, specifically for the Chinese market, built by Körber Schleifring Machinery Shanghai; the favoritCNC, as a simple variant for the Eastern European and American markets; and the ecoGrinder, as the best process-accessible version for the Asian continent. Later, a part loading/unloading device for large batch production, the smartLoad, was developed and patented. View a short video of the S33 here