Help you eliminate scrap

GrindMaster controls help you grind flawless workpieces every time by reducing variability in the grinding process. GrindMaster controls correct trends in the grinding process before defects are made.

Help you optimize your grinding process

GrindMaster controls show you the grinding process as it happens in terms and graphs you can understand, not by flashing the steps of complicated part programs. You can use this information to optimize the grinding process. You can even ask a GrindMaster control to suggest further cycle improvements.

Help you solve grinding problems

GrindMaster controls use smart devices that find problems, determine their likely causes and suggest solutions. Each solution has links to helpful information such as diagrams, schematics and part descriptions that you can easily access through the operator display or through a remote PC with a web browser.

Help you setup your grinding machine

• GrindMaster controls help you describe what your workpieces look like before you grind and what they need to look like after you grind.
• GrindMaster controls help you define the level of quality your workpieces need and how quickly and efficiently you need to produce them. Grinding workpieces too quickly can reduce quality.
• GrindMaster controls help you pick a wheel and dressing tool. As you make cycle choices, GrindMaster controls build your grinding process.

Help you keep track of production

By connecting GrindMaster controls to your company Intranet, GrindMaster controls can make production information readily available as a web page or in XML format.

Help you learn the grinding process

GrindMaster controls teach novice grinding machine operators by relating the grinding process to the actual machine motions. This method is the quickest way for most people to learn the grinding process.

Help you customize your process

Many customers have developed their own proprietary processes. Expert users can add their own proprietary knowledge to the GrindMaster's Grinding Help. More advanced users can add custom software to the user interface and even develop their own custom cycles.

Help you find problems

GrindMaster controls minimize hardware problems by directly communicating to smart devices over robust field buses. This reduces the risk of failure by reducing the amount of hardware. GrindMaster controls display hardware problems that do occur along with possible solutions.

Help you maintain your grinding machine

GrindMaster controls will e-mail your maintenance department specific maintenance instructions, when preventive maintenance is due.

Help you find the right information

All your machine documents are stored in your GrindMaster control. These documents use XML/XHTML technology to help you quickly find the information you need.