Perfect contour fidelity, surface quality and machining time are mutually conflicting goals:
 
- If the top priority is fast machining, then contour fidelity and surface quality will suffer.
- If exact contour fidelity is your aim, then slower feeds and exact tool approaches will result in longer machining time and more surface marks.
- If exceptional surface quality is key, then machined surfaces must often be ground smooth at the cost of contour fidelity and machining speed.
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Traditional milling machines and lathes are a common sight in many machine shops, where they are still used for training purposes or for making simple parts. But due to their often high overall longevity, many of these machines are constrained by aging digital readouts or low-tech graduated dials.
Fortunately, upgrading your machines can be convenient and cost-effective. Simply retrofit them with an ND 7000 or POSITIP 8000 digital readout. After a fast and easy installation process, you&rs...

Download your free e-book: If you want to boost your shopfloor efficiency with minimal investment, then collecting, visualizing and analyzing machine data is an essential starting point. Accurate machine data collection exposes the efficiency of your processes and delivers a valuable basis for analyzing wider operational data. Learn how easy this is in our free e-book Greater Process Efficiency, Higher Productivity.
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The TNC7 brings productivity-enhancing CNC performance to machine tools of all types. The control’s HMI portfolio offers the perfect hardware variant for every application, featuring intuitive touchscreen operation on a 16”, 19” or 24” Full HD monitor.
Two different operating panels are also available: a full keyboard unit with all operating keys or a streamlined version reduced to a machine operating panel and only the most important TNC function keys.
Each hardware va...

Is it possible to improve something as venerable as the potentiometer? Absolutely. The OC 310 override controller is the latest potentiometer generation for TNC7 controls and offers a variety of noteworthy enhancements.
With a quick turn of the OC 310, users can increase feeds to 100% or drop them down to 0%. Haptic feedback improves everyday convenience, causing the override controller to vibrate at user-defined events. And with our "Conditional stop" software function, users can set breakpoin...

HEIDENHAIN solutions are turning automation on its head, literally. Our new user report describes how IMSTec, a company specializing in automation technology, faced the challenge of fully automating a production system for high-precision needles used in medical single-use applicators. To keep the system’s robots accurate, IMSTec employs an iMS robotics calibration tool from ITG Innovative Technologies, featuring a HEIDENHAIN TS 150 touch probe.
Suspended from a machine-tool spindle,...

Have you already made any New Year’s resolutions for 2024?
We can recommend one that is easy to keep: Take an NC training course at HEIDENHAIN to deepen your expertise and that of your staff.
Explore our in-person training courses in Germany (Traunreut and the Stuttgard region), as well as our remote offerings, covering all skill levels from basic TNC programming through to expert-level CycleDesign and CAD-CAM-TNC training: https://www.klartext-portal.com/en/training/

Our celebrations with family and friends include eating, drinking, board games and traditional New Year’s TV programs, followed by the final countdown and fireworks.
HEIDENHAIN wishes you a Happy New Year! We’re looking forward to another twelve months of shared success in 2025. 

The time has come: We just lit up the fourth candle on our Advent wreath. HEIDENHAIN apprentices from three vocational tracks made it happen, turning the training shop into Santa’s workshop. It was a joint effort between our budding machinists, electronics specialists and optical instrument technicians.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a relaxing holiday season with your loved ones!

Discover how a German company is using the TNC7 for automated manufacturing: As a big fan of HEIDENHAIN products, the manufacturer CNC-Technik Mack GmbH uses the TNC7 control, including on an automated manufacturing cell with two DMG MORI DMU 75 monoBlock machines and a centralized pallet system.
Managing Partner Alexander Mack explains: “In our manufacturing environment, we rely on automation wherever possible. We aim to support our machine specialists and efficiently leverage their expe...