Dprnt Project at Circle Machine

Gilbert just finished an interesting project at Circle Machine. As some of you know, they've had SMW rotary tables and controllers on two of their Hardinge VMC's for quite awhile. In addition to these, they had custom tilting mechanisms too.

Recently, they got a trunion/rotary table from another Kennemetal division and bought a two axis controller for it from Haas. The new Haas servo controller accepts Fanuc Macro B Dprnt statements (loaded via a second RS-232 port) so we decided to try to use those instead of the old stored program M-Code/Fin system they used before. The main advantage is that they just program the A and B axis in the part program now. A singe M-code/Fin combination still executes the motion and holds the machine until it is complete, but they no longer need to pre-store the A and B values in the Haas memory.

If anyone knows of a customer who may be considering an add on rotary, we are well versed on how to help integrate Dprnt into both the machine and the programming department.