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ULTRAGRIND a next generation CNC cylindrical grinder featuring a totally new modular wheelhead design and machine configuration.

 

Increased Flexibility & Capacity with the All New Ultragrind

 

The Jones & Shipman next generation UltraGrind CNC cylindrical grinding machine featuring a brand new modular wheelhead design not only offers multiple wheel spindles configured to suit customer requirements, but also provides more power, more accuracy and increased component weight handling. There is also a high degree of modularity in the way the machine can be configured from build, allowing customer specific machines to be manufactured quickly and easily.

Built on a one-piece bed design, the machine combines great rigidity, stability and stock removal rates whilst maintaining high precision. It incorporates many mechanical, electrical and software features, suggested from customer research, that ensure it is easier to operate and change over in demanding production environments.

New Modular Wheelhead Design

The totally new modular wheelhead design ensures that operators have a wide choice of external & internal grinding spindle combinations, effectively allowing them to specify a custom machine, but without the associated cost and build time. Angular wheelhead positional accuracy and repeatability are assured via a high precision 1° Hirth coupling. An optional true 'B' axis, programmable to 0.0001° and utilising feedback from a high accuracy encoder mounted directly to the rotational spindle axis, enables infinitely variable positional resolution to be achieved. The machine is currently offered with 1000mm or 2000mm (39" or 78") between centres and centre heights of 180mm, 200mm and 250mm (7", 7¾" and 9¾").

CNC Software and Touchscreen Control

The UltraGrind uses a new Jones & Shipman proprietary Windows® based graphical programming software suite. This builds on the success of our Easy software that removes the requirement for operators to input code. ISO programming is also fully supported and codes can be easily viewed and used if that is the preference. The user-friendly software is built around a Fanuc® 320i with a touchscreen control system. This reduces the time needed for operator training, machining set-up and changeover times.
Simplicity does not limit flexibility however. A full suite of dressing and grinding programs are available for the operator. Easy to follow set-up pages allow the operator to digitise diamond and wheel positions by means of the simple user-friendly touch screen interface. Graphical images that represent programs and set-up are simply touched to program, providing quick and simple input.

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