While typical tool and cutter grinders require between 15 min to several hours for changeover.

While typical tool and cutter grinders require between 15 min to several hours for changeover, Anca Inc., Farmington Hills, Mich., states that its strange TX7 offers complete changeover of wheel pack, coolant rule workholding collet, and pallet in les than three min. The machine's wheel packs and corresponding coolant manifolds are prepared off-machine and quickly exchanged to grind a fresh tool.

The TX7 features a 24-hp 10000-rpm spindle, an automatic wheel changer, optional auto-loading rule and a 3,000-rpm headstock. The direct drive, high-speed workhead (A axis), suffers ...

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