ANCA launches GCX Linear to meet the growing needs of skiving cutter market
The GCX Linear builds on the best aspects of ANCAs proven technology to offer a purpose-built solution for manufacturing and sharpening skiving cutters. With a five axis CNC grinder powered by LinX linear motor technology on X, Y and Z axes, the GCX Linear also comes with features specially designed for skiving cutters and shaper cutters.
Century old invention finally realising its full potential – ANCA enters the skiving market
Xiaoyu Wang, Product Manager at ANCA said: “ANCA is responding to the increasing popularity of skiving and resulting surge in demand for skiving cutters. We want our customers to have a complete solution for manufacturing and sharpening skiving cutters and the GCX Linear will set the new benchmark for skiving cutter grinding.”
“Dressing the complex wheel profile is critical, ANCA developed the latest acoustic emission monitoring system (AEMS). AEMS can be taught to pick up the right sound of perfect dressing even in a noisy production environment. Built upon supervised machine learning algorithm, AEMS ensures the wheel profile is dressed within micron accuracy with the least possible time while minimising the reduction in size.”
Tailored features and industry firsts of ANCA’s new GCX Linear
- Motor temperature control (patent pending), minimises machine warmup time, and delivers optimal thermal stability during grinding.
- Full process virtualisation on design station before grinding: Design, Optimise, 3D Simulation, MRR Estimation and more.
- In-process dressing with acoustic emission monitoring system (AEMS) and supervised machine learning algorithm.
- Dedicated gear cutting tool software package.
- Five axis CNC grinder, with LinX linear motor technology on X, Y and Z axes.
- 37kW (49HP) peak power direct drive spindle with BigPlus arbor.
- High accuracy headstock offers greatly improved index positional accuracy.
