Fagor Automation has collaborated in two open houses organized by the Intaima Group (Taiwan) in Mexico City and Stuttgart.

The Intaima Group is currently made up by three Taiwanese companies: L&L, Jainnher and Millstart. This alliance of companies has been created to promote the development of the companies in the areas of R&D, production and sales and marketing.

Over the next few months, the group is expected to expand to include 10 companies and promises to be a serious conender in the future, with the backing of the Taiwanese government and collaboration with university centers in Taiwan for future developments.

At the open houses, at the invitation of Intaima, the group companies and Fagor Automation were able to make presentations on their respective companies before distributors from different countries, such as Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, to showcase the level of their companies. After the presentations, they enjoyed a meal provided by the Intaima Group, and the afternoons were dedicated to bilateral meetings between distributors and the companies giving the presentations.

It has been a very positive experience and we believe that in the near future, new business opportunities will emerge for everyone.

Fagor Automation has collaborated with Delcam in creating post-processors for their CAM PowerMILL, one of the best programs of its kind in the world.

Now PowerMILL has all the necessary tools for generating post-processors optimized for each machine, especially for the 5-axis one.

Thanks to the new high-speed machining algorithms and continuous 5-axis machining that we have developed, Fagor Automation and PowerMILL is the perfect tandem for fast and accurate 5-axis machining.

The FAGOR CNC 8065 offers tools for 3-axis, 3+2 and 5-axis continuous machining and PowerMILL is now able to manage all of them more efficiently and their post-processors can generate more intelligent programs, capable of making the machine run more smoothly while maintaining the set feedrate and tolerances. As a result, the part finish is excellent with more efficient life monitoring and less stress for the machine.

Fagor Automation has now the ability to interface with Renishaw ‘Inspection Plus’ software. While the capability to interface and operate with Renishaw Probing Systems has always been a standard feature of Fagor CNC Systems, the Fagor CNC now work with Renishaw software programs for a broad host of applications.

Of principle note is the Renishaw ‘Inspection Plus Software’ for Machining Centers. ‘Inspection Plus’ is a totally integrated package of software that includes vector and angle measure options, print options and an extended range of cycles. This includes an SPC cycle, 1 or 2 touch probing option, tool offset compensation by percentage of error and output data stored in an accessible variable stack.

Cycles included comprise:

• X or Y or Z single surface measure
• Web/pocket measure
• palpador4 point web/boss measure
• 3 point bore/vector measure (approach angles are specified for each point)
• Medición de agujero/vector en 3 puntos. (Se pueden especificar los ángulos de aproximación para cada punto)
• Angled web/pocket measure
• Hole/web in PCD
• 4th axis measure (component, fixture or machine table can be compensated for alignment)
• Stock allowance (it measures a surface at several points to adapt the irregularities of the material
• Multi-stylus calibration (several stylus ball configurations can be calibrated and stored)
• Measurement of distance between elements
• Angular XY surface
• Statistical process control (SPC) macro for tool offset updates

Capability also includes an ‘Inspection’ software for machining centers. This basic inspection/job set-up software contains the ability to set work offsets, update tool offsets and print inspection results. Due to the ease of use, this software is suitable for use by an operator or part programmer alike.

In addition, Fagor CNCs can work with Renishaw’s ‘CNC Reporter software’. This is a simple yet powerful tool for analyzing data and creating printable reports from data generated by the Fagor CNC and Renishaw’s inspection probing operation. The program provides measured feature dimensions, indicates whether these features are in or out of tolerance, and applies a ‘GO/NO-GO’ decision. The software allows the ability to collect data from over 250 parts within the same file and offers the possibility to customize the report template to suit your application needs. In addition, the reports are easily configurable in a Microsoft® Excel environment.

This new capability combined with the existing Fagor CNC 8060 and CNC 8065 Probing Canned cycle capability ensures customers have available to them a universal probing solution that provides the most advanced technological probing inspection capability available today.