Latest version CNC offers more reliability, less energy consumption and a smaller carbon footprint

The TNC7 CNC from Heidenhain is now available with the latest Version 18 software and new hardware designs.

This innovative CNC control can help companies master the present-day challenges of saving energy, reducing carbon emissions, staying competitive and ensuring a reliable automated manufacturing process. Users can operate the touchscreen of the TNC7 much as they would a tablet or smartphone.

Visitors to Heidenhain’s stand at MACH will be able to see all the latest enhancements the latest revision has to offer. For starters, the control’s hardware portfolio has been expanded: the original 24-inch version has been joined by a functionally identical 19-inch version, featuring a compact touchscreen, and by the new TNC7 basic with a 16-inch touchscreen for 3+2-axis machines.

The TNC7 basic offers an extensive package of options with characteristic TNC7 features, including DCM collision monitoring, OCM trochoidal milling and MAS 6D graphically supported setup. Taking customer feedback into account, the control’s latest Version 18 software contains enhancements that optimise process reliability and user-friendliness.

Multi-faceted hardware portfolio

Not every user wants to use a touchscreen; therefore the TNC7 is also available with an operating panel with three different models: a 16-inch and 19-inch variant are now joining the original 24-inch version with all models featuring the same full-HD screen resolution.

As an alternative to the large operating panel, customers who choose one of the more compact models can opt for a smaller panel containing the most essential TNC function keys. The 16-inch variant, named the TNC7 basic, rounds out the TNC7 portfolio at the lower end of the spectrum, both in terms of size and functionality. stepping up as the successor to the TNC 620 for 3+2-axis machines but with all of the characteristic benefits of the TNC7.

Start machining sooner

The quest for high first-part efficiency across all batch sizes and levels of automation requires looking beyond merely the machining phase. Machine setup also needs to be fast and convenient. Faster setups cut down on non-productive time and reduce a company’s carbon footprint.

With its graphically supported functions for 6D workholding and workpiece setup, the TNC7 offers two major time and energy savers. This virtual support enables fast, user-friendly and reliable position probing for both fixtures and blanks, regardless of the setup’s complexity.

Even for clamping towers or multiple parts clamped in a row, the TNC7 provides interactive step-by-step support throughout the setup process for simple and complex parts alike. In the case of complex parts, setup with the 6D setup function can be up to five times faster than with conventional probing cycles.

The package of options available for the TNC7 includes Optimized Contour Milling (OCM), which delivers next generation trochoidal milling by automatically calculating the best trochoidal milling strategy at all times for pockets and islands of any shape.

The Heidenhain exhibit at MACH includes live demos of the entire machining process with the TNC7, covering turning, roughing, finishing and deburring. These product demos focus on the time savings achieved by various TNC7 functions when applied to tasks such as programming, simulation and finishing.

Heidenhain
www.heidenhain.co.uk
Hall 20, Stand 310