Application Spotlight: 16-Axis Router Control

The machines built by Machine Tool Camp strike a balance between precise multi-axis motion and industry-leading speed. Making this work reliably for customers in high-volume industries like window/door manufacturing and wood furniture demands exceptionally close cooperation with a maker of motion automation equipment. Learn how MTC implements Yaskawa motion control to meet its customers' needs in speed, precision, and support.

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00:00:07 [Music] the heart machine is a machine for processing long narrow parts frequently sold to clients in the door and window industry this is our vr 510 flex cnc router it's one of the fastest machines in the marketplace and it is the most accurate cnc router in the marketplace

00:00:50 we can truly measure millionths of an inch in repeatability and we're frequently machining parts that are within a few ten thousands of an inch of accuracy this is a 16 axis piece of equipment that is running four threads of cnc control and there's no other machine in the industry that does this

00:01:10 the servo system has to be able to keep up with the demand of the control system we maximize the usage of the mechatrolink three communication protocol between our control and the yaskawa systems to drive all these axes and still maintaining these sub 10 000 of an inch accuracies and

00:01:33 repeatabilities the flat table machine that we manufacture is wickedly fast it's one of the fastest machines in the marketplace and it is the most accurate cnc router in the marketplace with the technology that we use with yaskawa at this point in time we can now move this three plus thousand

00:01:52 pound bridge at these kind of speeds maintain that accuracy because we have so much data flowing from the yaskawa package into the control and the control systems working together can adapt and overcome the variations in load that occurs during any cut we build

00:02:12 the high end what global manufacturing companies want in an industrial machine tool and when they come to us looking for a machine they want to look inside the electric cabinet and they want to see the stuff that rocks the world they love opening the doors and seeing yaskawa servo sigma 7

00:02:33 they love hearing absolute encoders battery-less encoders that gives us 16.4 plus million demarcations per revolution of every servomotor it's easy to build the machine that's fast it's easy to build a machine that's accurate it's challenging to build the machine that's fast

00:02:55 and accurate and that's what the yaskawa system brings to the table for us yaskawa has our back that's what we love