User-friendly software allows grinding wheels to be measured and qualified in the machine

ANCA’s improved advanced AutoQ employs an automated process to rapidly measure the diameter, width and location of grinding wheels on a wheel pack. While other in-machine wheel measurement systems require expensive additional hardware to be added to the machine, the ANCA solution uses existing hardware, with the addition of imaginative, user-friendly software, to achieve its highly accurate results. AutoQ’s precise measurements are achieved using a specially developed sensor that is part of all ANCA 5DX based machines, although other ANCA machines models may require an alternative qualification block, to allow the latest AutoQ system to be used. Significantly reducing set-up times, ANCA’s easy to use system offers the operator optimum speed – a wheel pack containing three wheels can be measured in approximately two minutes – while maintaining excellent accuracy. AutoQ allows wheels to be measured and qualified in the machine with the grinding spindle either running or stationary. When using AutoQ the machine “A” axis has been configured to be ‘soft’ enabling it to move under force. Once the machine’s servo-drive detects the applied external force, the position of all the axes are latched and the location of the wheel surface is known, with an impressive repeatability of 0.001 The AutoQ is totally independent of operator skill levels, therefore from shift to shift or wheel to wheel, machine owners are able to maintain consistent high-quality of their output.