![]() Micro-Mechanics presets each tool offline and writes the X-axis offset, or tool diameter, for milling cutters and tool length (Z-axis offset) to the chip with the push of a button. ![]() The system at Micro-Mechanics uses an RFID chip epoxied into Sandvik Coromant Capto quick-change toolholders. Its latest addition is a Tool Connect system from Caron Engineering, which reportedly is a simple, cost-effective way to automate the transfer of data from a presetter to a machine control. “Nothing hits the floor unless it’s been preset, tagged and simulated ahead of time,” Borch said. Since then, the shop has rolled the technology out to every part of the shop. Company president Chris Borch and his team began “reinventing” the shop 5 years ago after installing several Makino horizontal machining cells with Makino’s Modular Machining Complex (MMC2) technology and integrating them with RFID readers. ![]() The RFID read-station on Micro-Mechanics’ Okuma lathe transfers tool offset and usage data directly to the machine control. Recently, Micro-Mechanics Inc., a Morgan Hill, Calif., machine shop, worked with process control equipment provider Caron Engineering Inc., Wells, Maine, to implement an RFID tagging system on its Okuma LB series CNC lathe. The tagging applications for radio frequency identification (RFID) are vast, including pets, property-and even people.
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