Hi guyz, thanks for your responses.
I've decided to spend the time and get into using the CAS. I don't feel I could explain to the boss why his new m/c has been crashed, when it has the capacity to prevent it.
I have to say that Okuma have done their best to make a control that is not user friendly. Nothing in it is intuitive, and there is a lack of continuity in it's processes.
The .stp files that Sandvik offer on their website are not compatable. They need to be converted to .stl files, and then modified still further to make them usable. I spent all day today with our Okuma rep (G'day mate) trying to get six tools and chuck/jaws/billet setup. He was still going when I left for home.
Our machine has spent the last week being stripped and rebuilt (twice) to re-align the turret.
CAS would not have prevented this.
If a swarf ring that is left from boring a thru hole happens to jam itself into the GAP between the jaws and the tool tip, then that's bad luck. This has happened to me before (on conventional turret m/c's) with no greater damage than a busted insert and or, shim.
So that's what happened on our multus, and it's a HUGE DRAMA! We went back thru the MACMAN and found no overloads, no E/stops, nothing to suggest anything drastic has occured. No damage to jaws, or part. The tool has a mark under the corner of the shim which looks just like what it is, the result of a tip and shim breaking, which is what the operator said happened.
I cant say for sure what really did happen because I wasn't there.
I know I'm having a rant here. It's getting frustrating to still be setting up this machine weeks after it was bolted down. We haven't even started on the bar feeder yet!  |