A centerless grinder is a type of grinding machine that does not require the positioning of the axis of the workpiece for grinding. It is mainly composed of three mechanisms: a grinding wheel, an adjusting wheel and a workpiece support. The grinding wheel actually performs the grinding work, and the adjusting wheel controls The rotation of the workpiece and the control of the feed speed of the workpiece. As for the workpiece support to support the workpiece during grinding, there are several ways to cooperate with these three parts, except for stopping grinding, which are the same in principle.
Centerless grinders include standard centerless grinders and CNC centerless grinders. Standard centerless grinders are low in cost, but require too much manual intervention. The dressing adjustment of the grinding wheel is more dependent on people; CNC centerless grinders are expensive, but due to their high automation performance, For example, automatic dressing of the grinding wheel, automatic correction, positioning, etc., make the CNC centerless grinder an advantage of enterprise competitiveness, which can bring higher benefits to the enterprise.
As a mature company, while considering benefits, it also needs to learn more from other feasible solutions, such as automation transformation and automation solutions for centerless grinders. The automatic loading and unloading manipulators developed by our company can be further automated for centerless grinders and CNC centerless grinders. For example, the standard centerless grinder can realize automatic loading and unloading after adding our manipulator. The same worker can operate multiple devices at the same time, which doubles the production efficiency. Secondly, the CNC centerless grinder is automatically automated while cooperating. Our manipulators can change materials automatically, which can be regarded as "unmanned operation machine", which is a substantial improvement in production efficiency for all walks of life.
