Our CNC Machines: An Overview
Glass grinding is a tough business, being not only tough on machines, but operationally difficult. GLASSLINE machines are known as durable workhorses, lasting many years working for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year if needed. With good preventative maintenance, there will be very little downtime. High Uptime and regularly scheduled maintenance allows for more accurate planning of your production and higher efficiency.
Glass shape grinding is operationally tough because you are grinding one of the hardest substances and trying to hold tight tolerances. Machines need to be designed so that head/spindle flex is minimized, spindle runout is minimized, cnc axes need to be precision machined and include precision parts, good lubrication, and the machine must be well calibrated. Automatic wheel stoning is used to control wheel loading and quality grinding in order to hold glass size. GLASSLINE machines provide these things to make your life operationally easier. They create consistent, repeatable results to reduce your operational challenges.
As we all know the labor side of operations can be tough as well. By providing a robust, repeatable machine, it reduces variability for the operator, but there is also operator variability. Making things easier from an operator’s standpoint is important. GLASSLINE provides this in several ways:
- • Microsoft Windows-based operating system, makes them easy for virtually anyone to use.
- • Through many years of CNC grinding experience, operator-friendly screens provide the information needed, as well as the easy means of adjustment needed, via a large color touchscreen interface.
- • GLASSLINE’s CNC control system includes a Graphical Shape Display in addition to an NC Code display, Axis feedback, I/o, setpoints, and faults on an easy to read screen.
- • The Shape outline is drawn in various colors providing a kind of Spindle Load diagram by capturing the spindle load in real time. This color coded feedback can be extremely helpful in diagnosing location errors or for setup of offsets.
- • Multiple operation modes are available including manual, semi-auto, setup and file management.
- • Multiple password levels are available.
- • Manual modes include jog, incremental, absolute and home.
- • Optimized Engineering screens are provided, including Auto-calibration features, advanced interpolation functions, as well as optional features such as Laser Referencing..