• Jones & Shipman

Cylindrical Grinders

Jones & Shipman offers a Cylindrical Grinder, Suprema. Benefits: medium/short batch work or even one-offs because of the ease and speed of change over; CNC with traditionally styled operation and it is easy to use even for operators unfamiliar with CNC grinding. A major advantage is the incorporation of a Touchscreen control system for easy-to-use proprietary self-teach software. This powerful but simple multi-axis control system combination enables an inexperienced operator to quickly progress from manual single diameter applications to linked cycle/multi diameter single or batch operations. It comes with embedded software to undertake single or multiple diameter and face grinding, plus dressing of left or right hand facing wheels and the ability to easily form dress profiles. Additional features such as taper traverse grind, contour grind and easy down/up load to and from PDA, PC, or Network are also included. A second level of optional software provides solutions, through a grinding-specific PC-based CAD CAM software suite which also accepts DXF files, and converts them into grinding or dressing programs incorporating features such as rapid wheel profiling, on screen simulations, collision detection, etc. The range is available in two grinding capacities of 12" x 25" or 12" x 40" (300 x 650 mm or 300 x 1000mm) and is offered with plain/straight approach wheelhead or 3-wheel universal swivelling wheelhead options.