Besides the fact that Italian machine maker CMS had bought a 25% stake in the firm (TTJ June 2), Rye Technology’s key announcement at Ligna was that it has developed a new automatic tool system for all its CNC machines.
The ATS allows machine operators to pre-set all tools in the toolchange carousel ‘in a fraction of the time necessary for conventional tool setting’. This, said Rye, means that ‘mistakes resulting in scrap components and damaged tools are virtually eliminated’.
The ATS – which costs £850 – has built-in precision feedback allowing tools to be loaded into the spindle and driven to a setting pad automatically.
