CNC Retrofit Solutions

CNC Retrofit Solutions

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.

Revive your Machine Tool for Maximum Output and Profit with

a Mitsubishi Electric CNC Retrofit

In today’s competitive marketplace you need to be able to maximize productivity and simultaneously minimize costs. A Mitsubishi Electric CNC retrofit can be a good solution to both of these issues. If you are experiencing significant control/electrical issues with your aging machine tool but the machine is still mechanically sound, then a Mitsubishi Electric CNC retrofit may be right for you.

AFTER

Retrofit: A Competitive Investment

Rather than waste money on refurbished control parts, it can be financially wise to invest in a NEW Mitsubishi Electric CNC system, with its reputation for reliability, to minimize downtime and keep your line rolling. Increased efficiency of a retrofitted machine, along with reduced downtime, will real-ize more profit and lower operating costs, while requiring less capital outlay than a new machine. Many times our customers finance their retrofit from their maintenance budget rather than from capital funds. This can make it easier and faster to get finance approval and your production numbers up sooner.

In addition, you’ll find Mitsubishi Electric offers more features and capabilities as "standard" that our competitors consider "options." Look beyond the initial price tag to see what’s included and you’ll see why Mitsubishi Electric is a worldwide choice for CNC.

CNC

Plant

Facto

ry Flo

_or

Other D

evices

ots, Remote I/ O,

Sensors, Swit

ches, etc.

PC

Local M

achine

I/O

DeviceNet / A S-i

Device

Networ

k

Plant O

ffice

Contro

l Netwo

rk

FL-Net/ Profib us

Ethern

et Info

rmatio

n Netw

ork

NC

CNC

Produc

tion Co

ntrol

Network Capabilities

Available connectability to a plant-wide Ethernet network offers:

• Production management control, even from remote locations

• Program server over Ethernet • Alarm tracking and management

• Remote Diagnostic Capability: Troubleshoot the machine from a remote PC, whether across the shop floor, across the street, or on the other side of the globe.

Open System

Open device and control level networks on some controls (CC-Link, FL-Net, Profibus DeviceNet, AS-i) provides for extreme flexibility regarding the type of equipment that can be networked with your retrofitted Mitsubishi Electric CNC. Our CNCs are on some of the largest production lines in the world and can fit right in with a lot or your exist-ing equipment.

I N T E R N E T

C O N N E C T I O

N

PC

(SCADA, HMI)

Other E

quipme

nt

otion Controll ers, etc.

Servo

/ Spind

le

Motors

Servo /

Spindle

Amps

Offsite

PC

remotemonito

r / diagnostics

Flexibility

Mitsubishi Electric can make a retrofit economi-cally beneficial for your business whether it’s a small "job shop" with only a few machine tools, or a large plant with a production floor filled with automated equipment requiring intercon-nectivity. Either way, you’ll be getting Mitsubishi Electric reliability and performance to extend the life of your older equipment at a substantial saving over the cost of replacement.

Customization

Mitsubishi Electric can offer the flexibility of cus-tom screen development with our CNCs, helping our customers tailor fit our CNCs to their specific application. One of the benefits this brings is the ability to have standardized screens on all of your machine tools throughout your plant, even when you have more than one manufacturer’s CNC on your plant floor. Mitsubishi Electric has gained expertise in this area as a result of working with many of the world’s top machine tool builders on the development of custom screens.

Increased Productivity

Productivity levels for older but still sound equipment, retrofitted with state-of-the-art Mitsubishi Electric CNCs, can be comparable to that of a new machine. By upgrading the control elements, time currently spent tinkering with antiquated controls adjusting and repairing them becomes time making product.

A new Mitsubishi Electric CNC can eliminate long replacement part lead times frequently experienced with older controllers. Time and money wasted on hard-to-find parts and service for your current controller could be used to retrofit the entire machine with a new Mitsubishi Electric CNC. When you choose a Mitsubishi Electric CNC for your retrofit, you will get some of the fastest block processing and execution times in the industry. You can process and execute up to 1126 blocks per second with a Mitsubishi Electric CNC letting you reduce cycle times and machine more parts in less time without replacing the basic machinery.

Increased Reliability

Mitsubishi Electric CNCs are among the highest in reliability in the industry. Many of the top machine tool builders worldwide utilizing Mitsubishi Electric CNCs on their machines can attest to this. Our reliability is backed-up by a standard two-year warranty with extended service contracts and 24x7 support programs available.

Improved Accuracy

Increased accuracy increases the value of your product at substantial savings over the cost of a new machine tool. Encoders with up to one million pulses per revolution and control programmability to .00001 inches allow for sub-micron machining accuracy.

Linear scale feedback capability provides actual machine-side feedback instead of just motor encoder and helps compensate for machine backlash problems.

Control parameters can compensate for machine backlash, pitch error, optimal acceleration and deceleration time, etc. In many cases your machine retrofitted with a Mitsubishi Electric CNC can produce better than when it was new.

Why Mitsubishi Electric?

When you choose Mitsubishi Electric for your control retrofit, you are getting one of the top CNC manufacturers in the industry. Not a new-comer… Mitsubishi Electric has been making CNCs for nearly half a century. We pioneered the world’s first 32-bit CNC and the first 64-bit PC-based CNC. When you choose Mitsubishi Electric, you don’t have to worry about

capa-bility, quality, or reliability because we’re

famous for all three. With thousands of controls running worldwide in nearly every application imaginable, we have the experience and expertise to meet your every need.

Mitsubishi Electric doesn’t only offer CNCs, we cover the full spectrum of automation equip-ment including servo amplifiers and motors, operator interfaces, programmable logic con-trollers, industrial PCs, variable frequency drives, motion controllers, robots and uninter-ruptible power supply systems. Mitsubishi Electric is a single source system solution

provider, with a broad range of products to fit

your needs. Mitsubishi has automation equip-ment to support nearly any application.

Global Company with a Local Touch

Mitsubishi Electric is a worldwide corporation with regional and local offices, parts and serv-ice centers wherever your business might take you. When you need advice for applications, service, parts or other support on the phone, on the web, or on your shop floor, Mitsubishi Electric will be there for you.

Automation Platforms™ • Industrial Computers • Programmable Logic Controllers • Servo Systems • Motion Control • Variable Frequency Drives • Human Machine Interfaces Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems • Software • Computerized Numerical Controllers • PC Based Control • Robots • Industrial Sewing Equipment

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.

Discover the Many Facets of Mitsubishi Electric. The Power in Automation Solutions.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. 500 Corporate Woods Parkway Vernon Hills, IL 60061

Phn: (847) 478-2100 Fax: (847) 478-2253 www.meau.com

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. 4299 14th Avenue

Markham, Ontario L3R 0J2 Phn: (905) 475-8989 Fax: (905) 475-7935

Printed with Soy inks. Effective April, 2004.

Specifications subject to change without notice. L-VH-02035