Contemporary CNC Machine Breeds a Revolutionary Breakthrough

There is still a long way to go before China can become a powerful machine tool. When exploring future trends, don't just think that the new machine tool products from abroad are trends, and you don't know why. From the general trend of social and economic development, machine tools, as production tools and energy-using products, can focus on product innovation in the following several years in the following four areas:

(1) Ecological machine tools. Green manufacturing is a prerequisite for sustainable development.

What is green ecological machine tool? The vision of green ecological machine tool should have the following characteristics: The main parts of the machine tool are made of recycled materials, the weight and volume of the machine tool are reduced by more than 50%, and measures such as reducing the quality of moving parts and reducing the air-running power are taken. The power consumption is reduced by 30% to 40%, and various wastes during use are reduced by 50% to 60% to ensure that there is basically no pollution in the working environment. After scrapped, 100% of the material of the machine tool is recovered.

The new concept put forward by the green ecological machine tool is to reduce the weight of the machine tool, save material, and at the same time reduce the energy consumption when the machine tool is used.

Machine tools must embody energy-saving, emission-reduction and overall efficiency-based evaluation criteria. Over the years, machine tool capability indicators such as accuracy, speed, and power have been the main goals of machine tool products. Under the current pressure to stop the deterioration of the environment, industrial production needs to reduce the negative impact on the environment in all directions. The direction of the development of machine tools should also be changed from improving capacity indicators to improving efficiency indicators and obtaining more output with less input.

The main methods for machine tool greening are: adopting new structure and new materials to reduce the quality of moving parts and achieving energy saving; using dry cutting and MQL to realize emission reduction, paying attention to the smooth flow of chips, rapid heat removal, and ensuring that dry cutting is not used and MQL causes thermal deformation of the machine tool and affects the machining accuracy.

(2) Smart machine tools. Intelligence based on the Internet and computer technology is a reflection of the machine tool's further extension of human brain power. Intelligent can improve the stability and reliability of machine tool work. Smart machine tools can monitor their own status with various sensors, analyze the status of the machine, the processing process, and information about the surrounding environment, and then take countermeasures to ensure optimal processing. In other words, machine tools have evolved to send messages and think and adjust on their own. For example, it can reduce active vibration suppression of vibrations, intelligent heat barriers that can control thermal displacements, intelligent safety barriers that can prevent parts from colliding, voice prompts, and SMS notifications, and help select cutting parameters according to processing requirements.

The clever machine tool is actually a complete processing system, and the essence of this processing system is the networking and intelligence of the manufacturing system.

The system is dynamically optimized. The related process and equipment knowledge are integrated and modeled to optimize the dynamic performance of the system.

Equipment adaptation. Develop new measurement methods, models and standards, monitor the machine state under running conditions, and perform self-diagnosis and error compensation with on-line measurement, sensing and real-time analysis to improve the working performance of the machine tool.

Using a new generation of CNC systems. The interface and data format compatible with STEP-NC allow the CAD model-based machine control to run seamlessly.

Direct measurement of tool wear and workpiece accuracy during machining.

(3) Customized. The shift from large-scale production to large-scale customization is a general trend in the manufacturing industry, and the machine tool industry is no exception. When a good user's technologist creates value for the user is not empty talk, the products produced by users are different, and the requirements for machine tools and equipment are of course different. For example, the goal of a composite machining machine is that a complex workpiece is machined on a machine tool, and different workpieces have different technological processes and machining methods. The configuration of a compound machine tool should be different. It can be foreseen that a considerable number of companies that only focus on the production and sales of traditional general-purpose machine tools will be gradually replaced by competitors who provide users with a comprehensive solution that is modular, reconfigurable, and flexible.

In order to strive for greater sales highlights, foreign companies have applied the concept of service economy to the sales of machine tools, and traditional machine maintenance services have been subject to different shocks, resulting in great changes. Traditional CNC machine maintenance services have expanded to help users create value, increase productivity, and maximize efficiency. Designing solutions for customers is the basic strategy for common development.

We must combine service economy with manufacturing sales and change the operating mode of the machine tool industry. Machine tool companies must combine technology, service, management, and cost to maintain their competitiveness. Technology determines strength, service determines advantages, management, and costs determine efficiency. What the user needs, the company must focus on user needs, in particular to grasp the market's forward-looking needs, to meet new market changes, form a full range of service capabilities, provide complete sets of products and comprehensive solutions, and gradually realize the project general contracting project .

(4) combination of hard and soft. Traditional machine tool manufacturers usually do not provide software products when they sell machine tools. Even CNC machine tools, the software of the CNC system is embedded into the CNC system by the system supplier, not by the machine tool manufacturer. As the shape of the machine tool's processing object becomes more and more complex, the function of the CNC machine tool continues to expand, and the number of control axes gradually increases, the maximum efficiency of the machine tool must be fully utilized to ensure that the user can process with the highest process safety and efficiency. Must rely on software support.

Today, in the Internet logistics network, the machine tool is not only a production equipment, but also a joint in the factory network. In the network, the machine tool can establish contact with the production management system, the tool and the material management system, even with the machine tool, the cutter supplier, automatically processes the question which appears in the production.