End-mills, drills and step-drills, for example, of 1 to 16 mm diameter can be produced – and tools from 3 to 100 mm diameter can be re-ground – on the 5-axis machine with a 9 kW/10,500 rpm main motor. The machine also features Fanuc CNC plus the Helitronic Tool Studio software which, in conjunction with the optional Feedrate Optimiser functionality, leads to minimised grinding and overall non-productive times.
Unmanned tool grinding in a small footprint
With robot load/unload and a storage capacity of 1,500 tools, the new Walter Helitronic Mini Automation tool grinder from Walter Ewag UK is targeted at the unmanned fully automatic production, including lights-out operation, of rotary tools.
