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Automation Exhibit at Hurco Booth Focuses on High Mix/Low Volume Part Production

To celebrate the company’s 50th Anniversary, Hurco will showcase the latest automation technology surrounding the Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 against the backdrop of historical treasures, such as the company’s first CNC machine, the KM1.

Automation will be the featured exhibit at Hurco Booth (S-338319) with collaborative robots, multi-axis serial robots, and pallet systems demonstrating automation for high-mix/low volume part production found in many job shops. The automation exhibit at the Hurco booth is a collaborative effort between Hurco and Erowa, Universal Robots, FANUC robots, Online Resources, and Industrial Controls & Automation

A collaborative robot will 3D scan the faces of attendees, generate a solid model to create a tool path, and then either a 5-axis Hurco VMX30Ui CNC will cut the head from cylindrical aluminum stock or a 3-axis Hurco VM10i CNC will cut the profile into a brass coin. Both Hurco CNC machines will be connected to fully automated robot systems coordinated by a centralized job management system.

Dr. Paul Gray, Manager of Path Planning, Front-End Design and R&D for Hurco notes that “Automation integration used to be more expensive and difficult because you had simple I/O connections and needed to reprogram a PLC when changing parts. CNC manufacturers and automation providers have been working together to provide seamless integration between the CNC control and the robot control. With software systems talking to each other over an Ethernet connection, users can now bundle all aspects of the job together. Hurco has created a new level of flexibility and simplicity in part change-over in production cells.”

Additionally, Hurco will introduce 3D Import with 3D DXF technology at IMTS. According to Mike Cope, Product Technical Specialist for Hurco, “The customer can simply load the file they receive from their customer directly into the control, which eliminates the need for extra steps.”

He explained the evolution of the 3D Import, which illustrates Hurco’s commitment to continuous innovation of conversational programming, which was invented by Hurco co-founder Gerald Roch in 1976. “When Hurco introduced the DXF Transfer option in 1992, it was a real game changer for the end user because many shops received DWG or DXF drawing files. This made it very easy to transfer the files to the machine and use them to create their programs on the

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shop floor (right at their Hurco CNC Machine), and also eliminated incorrect data being entered, or ‘fat-fingering numbers’ as we say in the shop. Today, it is common for shops to receive solid models of the parts that they need to produce, and even paper prints are becoming obsolete. Therefore, Hurco engineers developed 3D Import, which includes 3D DXF technology that displays all geometry that the CAD system outputs, including splines. With 3D DXF, the customer can select the bottom of a contour, and the Z-axis depths will also be automatically input into the conversational block.

All previous versions of DXF translators only displayed lines and arcs data, and were only useful in 2D – no Z-axis data was translated. 3D Import (the solid model portion) will automatically create the necessary Transform Plane data blocks in conversational programming for 5-sided programs.”

For more information, visit Hurco.com/IMTS.

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Caption: The 50th Anniversary edition Hurco 5-axis VMX30Ui and FANUC robot will demonstrate job shop automation capabilities at the Hurco IMTS Booth.

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Caption: From past to present: Hurco CNC machines throughout the years (1978 – 2018).

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Caption: First Hurco CNC machine model (KM1) will be on display during IMTS 2018.