Press Release
DRIVES WITH STYLE GIVE PRECISION CUTTING
One of Europe’s fastest growing manufacturers of PC-based CNC
lathes and machining centres has standardised on drives and servos
from Control Techniques’ Drive Centre in Holland.
The Dutch company, STYLE High Tech, is a
young, professional company that takes a radical approach to the
design and performance of lathes and milling machines, aiming at
the small to medium-size operation for batch production or
prototyping and the range includes special ‘Teach-In’ machines for
colleges.
From its start in 1997, when the STYLE 2000 TF
Control System was introduced and the first Teach-In lathe
introduced two years later, STYLE has aimed to combine economy with
high performance. It was in the search for more dynamic and
flexible drives that STYLE turned to Control Techniques for more
stable spindle drives and servo-drives and motors for multi axis
control.
Control Techniques Commander SK drives are
used for open-loop spindle control, Unidrive SP for closed loop
control (from 5.5 to 15 kW), whilst M’Ax servo drives teamed with
Control Techniques Dynamics’ Unimotors with SLM control are the
choice for the X,Y and Z axis servo control.
Control Techniques’ Rotterdam Drive Centre now
supplies the company with around 250 servo axes and 100 spindle
drives per year, with STYLE ordering standard ‘kits of parts’ for
just-in-time delivery. These include software options for
functions not supported by the STYLE CNC controller and implemented
within the Unidrive SP applications module – spindle positioning
for rigid tapping and gain switching for increasing the speed range
are just two examples. The customer also uses special option
modules for non-standard encoder simulations for feeding back
position to external controllers.>>>>>>>
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