Machine tool manufacturers continue to promote new products to help tool manufacturers and grinding plants improve work efficiency and reduce costs. In order to improve the utilization of machine tools and reduce labor costs, automation has been paid more and more attention. At the same time, through the development of software to broaden the operation of the machine tool function, and can be in the production of small batch and short delivery cycle, the economic arrangement of production schedule. In addition, increase the power of the machine tool, so that it can adapt to the diverse needs and broaden the scope of grinding tool specifications.

In the future, the development of CNC tool grinding machine is mainly reflected in three aspects:

Automation: When the tool manufacturer produces new tools, the efficiency is high due to the large batch. But the tool grinding plant does not have this condition, only through automation to solve the efficiency problem. Tool refiners do not require the machine to be unmanned, but want one operator to be able to watch over multiple machine tools to control costs.

2, high precision: many manufacturers to reduce operating time as a primary goal, but other manufacturers put the quality of parts in an important position (such as high-precision tool and parts manufacturers). With the improvement of grinding machine production technology, the newly developed machine tools can guarantee very tight tolerances and extraordinary finish.

3. Development of application software: Now the factory hopes that the higher the degree of automation of grinding processing, the better. Regardless of the size of the production batch, the key to the problem is to achieve flexibility. Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the Association, said that the work of the Association's Tool Committee in recent years has included the establishment of an automatic loading and unloading system for tools and grinding wheels to realize unattended or minimize the supervision of the grinding process. He emphasized that the reason for the increasing importance of software is that the number of highly skilled workers capable of manually grinding complex tools is decreasing. In addition, hand-made tools are also difficult to meet the requirements of modern machine tools for cutting speed and accuracy. Compared with CNC grinding, manual grinding will reduce the quality and consistency of the cutting edge. Because manual grinding, the tool to rely on the support piece, the grinding wheel grinding direction to the cutting edge, which will produce edge burr. And CNC grinding is the opposite, the work without the support piece, the grinding direction away from the cutting edge, it will not produce edge burr.