Macomb, Michigan - The new ONA AV wire EDM machines won the 11th Spanish Award for Design and Innovation in Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technologies. It is part of the company’s strategic plan to boost current product competitiveness through the design of wire EDM machines in the high accuracy and high performance range in Wire EDMs.
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ONA has won the award five times, demonstrating public recognition for its history of using industrial design as a strategic tool, making the firm one of Spain’s most trusted machine tools companies.
The main features of the new AV machines include:
- A new CNC-CAM that exceeds the demands of the most advanced programmer and at the same time offers an extremely simple, userfriendly interface. The CNC makes it possible to control up to 8 axes
-moresimultaneously, is CAD/CAM incorporated and boasts a 21.5” touch screen.
- A new generator that can deliver surface finishes to the order of 0.1 μm Ra.
- Design of a new automatic threader to handle fine wires of up to .0003 inches in diameter.
- Improved precision and safety levels. The machine incorporates new corner and profile control systems, linear glass scales of 0.1 μm and a crash protection system able to detect impacts of just 0.8 kg (8 N).
- A new advanced energy-management system that cuts power consumption by up to 30% during the EDM process, as well as reduced wire consumption, thanks to new ECOCUT technology.
- An extraordinarily compact design. The new machine layout can reduce the footprint by 20% compared to other models with similar travels.
- LINUX based CNC with open architecture to allow easy integration with robotics, third party CAD/CAM job and management software.
Source: ONA