Have a new machine here Haas VF-2SS with a side mount tool changer.
One thing I have noticed on short cycle tools (for example, spot tool) is that the machine has to wait for the side mount to get the next tool staged before making a tool change.
The tool in the spindle when finished hesitates at Z.1 while the tool changer indexes to get the next tool and once found, the tool change is performed.
I notice in longer tool cycles, that the tool changer does not go and stage the next tool until a few lines before the tool change is called for in the program, thus when a really short tool cycle is being run, it has to wait.
This machine changes tools from chip to chip in literally just a few seconds so I imagine the speed of the process itself is partially to blame, but it has left me wondering if there is any code I can implement into the program to stage the next tool immediately after the tool in use has begun its cycle, thus speeding the process along.
Thanks in advance!
Russ
One thing I have noticed on short cycle tools (for example, spot tool) is that the machine has to wait for the side mount to get the next tool staged before making a tool change.
The tool in the spindle when finished hesitates at Z.1 while the tool changer indexes to get the next tool and once found, the tool change is performed.
I notice in longer tool cycles, that the tool changer does not go and stage the next tool until a few lines before the tool change is called for in the program, thus when a really short tool cycle is being run, it has to wait.
This machine changes tools from chip to chip in literally just a few seconds so I imagine the speed of the process itself is partially to blame, but it has left me wondering if there is any code I can implement into the program to stage the next tool immediately after the tool in use has begun its cycle, thus speeding the process along.
Thanks in advance!
Russ