How can you have confidence that a part program created with a CAM system or programming station will run flawlessly on your machine?
With our Digital Twin service!
A HEIDENHAIN Digital Twin brings the shop floor to your back office, providing a perfect digital model of your machine for use on your programming station.
Speaking of programming stations: If you have the new vTNC7 programming system from HEIDENHAIN, then our “Digital Twin for vTNC7” service lets you store and simulat...

Ever since the first TNC 110 appeared in 1976, HEIDENHAIN controls have stood for convenient on-machine CNC programming with intuitive dialogue guidance.
The Klartext conversational programming language soon made its debut with the TNC 135, appearing at the 1979 EMO trade show. As the first TNC control to also feature a screen, the TNC 135 set new standards in user-friendliness.
Today, Klartext continues to actively guide users in more than 20 languages, prompting them through all the pro...

What if you could leverage the newest TNC functions on your older HEIDENHAIN controls? There is a way! With our new Klartext Converter for the vTNC7.
After using the vTNC7’s convenient Feature-Based Programming function to create an NC program, you can use the Klartext Converter to run it on pre-TNC7 HEIDENHAIN controls without the otherwise necessary software options.
But there’s more: The Klartext Converter also lets you run many TNC7 cycles on other TNC controls. It’s all...

As part of our now 50-year-old story of TNC controls, did you know that TNC users have been reading our Klartext Magazine for 43 years!
The magazine’s first edition appeared in March 1983. Over four decades, it’s been a source of practical tips, inspiring ideas, and intriguing insights into the world of TNC controls.
Beyond its aim to inform, the Klartext Magazine was also meant to entertain. Early editions included a cartoon exploring the humorous side of a typical cycle, function...

Discover Feature-Based Programming — a highlight of the new vTNC7 programming system from HEIDENHAIN.
This new capability accelerates your journey from 3D models to NC programs. Simply extract geometric features from the model and apply your desired machining strategy. Based on this data, Feature-Based Programming automatically generates a Klartext program.
It’s an incredibly fast, easy, and reliable way to write programs for your CNC machine...

The first TNC changed the machining world. Here’s how.
In the early days, NC programs were created away from the machine and recorded on primitive storage media such as punch cards. Among other drawbacks, this process made it hard to modify existing programs.
But in 1976, HEIDENHAIN introduced its first TNC control. The new TNC 110 pioneered technologies such as manual data input via a keypad and dialogue-guided operation.
By empowering...

Get ready to celebrate: This year marks the 50ᵗʰ anniversary of TNC controls from HEIDENHAIN! It’s a fascinating story of engineering evolution. Journey with us through time as we relive the major milestones in TNC development from 1976 to the present day. Stay tuned over the coming months!

The time is almost here: 2025 is coming to an end, and 2026 is about to begin. We would like to thank all members and partners of the TNC Club for the exchange, the ideas, and the collaboration over the past year. For the new year, we wish you above all good health, contentment, and fresh inspiration for the projects ahead.
 

Empower Manufacturing: The vTNC7 programming system moves your manufacturing process faster from initial design to the first finished part. Its new Feature-Based Programming function automatically extracts holes or milling contours from CAD files, helps you combine this data with machining strategies, and makes it easy to generate a reliable Klartext program.
And with the new Klartext Converter, NC programs generated by the vTNC7 are converted to run on pre-TNC7 controls that lack the necessary...

Improve your manufacturing agility and efficiency: The StateMonitor machine data collection software from HEIDENHAIN provides a job-data interface for automated data exchange with ERP and MES systems, thereby ensuring data consistency across different systems. By combining job data with real-world data from the shop floor, StateMonitor delivers deeper insight into your manufacturing processes with a single software tool.
Empower Manufacturing with this and other exciting highlights from th...