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WattPilote Single has been designed especially for one spindle machines using a significant number of tools: machining centre, special machine with tool changer.
Often critical machining performed with small
and fragile tools must be monitored.
Due to the measurement accuracy associated with
a special control algorithm, WattPilote
can monitor all tools, even the smallest: controlling a
0.07 second machining with 1mm drill on
20kW spindle can be regarded as a fact.
The objectives of real time
machining monitoring are to
avoid waste, to increase
tool life and to reduce time
of machine stop.
The 'high-performance' machine shops or machining centres with pallet changer can work by themselves: when tool wear or breakage is detected, the machine stops, changes the tool by a new one, then starts machining again, either on the same part or on the following part.
Only one box, containing measurement sensors and the data-processing part, is connected into the electric cabinet : the system is compact, easy to install and resistant to environmental influences (cutting oil, swarf, temperature, vibrations, electromagnetic pollution).
First of all designed for machining
monitoring, WattPilote can also periodically
perform cycles to obtain spindle signature to
detect a mechanical fault : ball-bearing wear,
lubrication …
The Visu-CN-C software is a proper tool of diagnostic and supervision. User-friendly, it is loaded on the numeric control. The operator displays machining cycles, tool wear condition and fault curves. He can modify the control tolerances, acknowledge faults and tool change.
