thesharpedge - Anca

One issue that has plagued the
regrinding industry for many
years is productivity. By nature, batch
runs are short and lead times just as
short, making process automation
almost impractical. ANCA’s innovation
centre worked closely with customers
to create a solution that would
give regrinding companies the
sort of productivity levels normally
associated with manufacturing.
The result was the release of new
enhancements for the GX7 resharpening
machine: the GX7+ with
wheel changer, and the GLX auto
loader.
With these two enhancements
to the GX7 available, regrinding
companies now have a choice of
several options, meaning they can
select the machine configuration that
ANCA and Nikken jointly developed a
unique system that enables the GLX
to change either tool and collet, or
the tool alone. This reduces tooling
costs significantly.
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best suits their business. And as all
options were designed specifically for
the resharpening industry, the range
is an excellent match for customer
requirements.
GX7+
The GX7+ is the standard GX7
machine, but fitted with a sevenpack
wheel changer and HSK taper
spindle.
GX7
a better
way to
regrind
New enhancements for the GX7
resharpening machine have
solved an age-old problem for
regrinding companies. Andrew
Ritchie explains.
With such a wide range of cutting
tools geometries in use today,
and more being developed all the
time, resharpening companies find
themselves needing many different
wheels on hand. The wheel changer
makes up to 28 wheels available
to the operator in a single setup.
The speed with which the packs are
changed means the cycle time on a