It’s from next Tuesday that Tornos will unveil its new SwissNano to its visitors. With a 4 mm capacity this world premiere is mainly dedicated to matchmakers but all companies woking on microtechnology may be interested.
I passed in front of the company this morning and the building changed radically in order to welcome this event… this machine looks nice.
SwissNano: designed for stability The kinematic structure was designed for exemplary balance and thermal management. The axes and cast iron members are aligned symmetrically to the guide bush, and the thermal aspects are managed by ‘mini-loops’ that prevent heat propagation. The structure is anchored on three damped points. What about the results? Rigidity and vibration stability reach new peaks. Consequently, machining precision and quality are everything that they should be. Mr. Renggli, Marketing Manager specifies: "Results of the tests were never able to fault the machine, either with respect to the high precision required in watchmaking or in terms of quality of finish."
Setting, monitoring and interaction Swiss Nano includes a precision tool setting system using a sensor and feeler probe. The aim? To provide a user-friendly system able to position the tools to within 3 to 8 µ, according to the bar diameter. The greatest advance may be in terms of communication. Swiss Nano has a graphic tablet on top. All the basic production data (workpieces, products, machine, bar changeover, fleet monitoring, etc.) are reported on this interface. At a glance, the operator can access all the data for a specific machine or for the whole fleet (access management is of course secure, and only authorised persons can access predefined information levels).
To be discovered more on the Tornos Watchmaking days in Moutier, from March 5 to 8, 2013.
You can read the completefirst article on Eurotec here (English, French and German like on every article published in Eurotec).
Tornos SA Industrielle 111 2740 Moutier Phone +41 32 494 44 44 Fax +41 32 494 49 03 [email protected] www.tornos.com
I’ll publish more pictures on Monday…
