STUDER Awarded for Innovative Internal Cylindrical Grinding

The Swiss grinding machine manufacturer won the gold medal in the category “Innovations-Technologies-Machines Poland“ for the internal grinding machine CT960 at the “Poznan International Fair.”

STUDER (Bern, Switzerland) wins the gold medal for its CT960, a highly versatile grinder that uses four spindles for complex grinding tasks and has received revolutionary innovation in the area of the B-axis and the grinding spindle turret – for even greater precision and speed.

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The new turret is a very important component for complete machining. It enables the use of up to four grinding spindles and a measuring probe. This allows complete machining of workpieces in the same clamping as well as process-based measurement – with minimal auxiliary times combined with greater precision. The swivelling time for 90 deg is 2 seconds, for 270 deg is 3 seconds.

The angular position of the grinding spindles is infinitely variable from –5 deg to +30 deg in all four positions. The mechanical indexing functions are now controlled by the StuderSimCT software.

The decisive innovation of the CT960 lies in the automatic B-axis of the workhead with a swivelling range of +61 deg to -91 deg and a direct drive, which enables very fast and precise positioning as well as very precise grinding with interpolation of the B-axis for grinding radii.

Thanks to the new design the B-axis now has no contact surface, is completely closed and consequently wear-free and moves even faster. With its precision of 1/10,000 deg, the machine is in the range of the barely measurable.

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