The comprehensive range of Microset tool presetting machines provide the capability to increase the productivity of your machine tool investment by substantially slashing machine idle time at tool changeover.

The justification for tool presetting is simple. As the sophistication and cost of machine tool investment increases, expensive non-productive time invlving tool setting on the machine with repeated trial cuts must be eliminated. The impressive Microset user list indicates payback periods of less than a year and confirm that it is far more cost effective to set the tool before it is on the machine so that at tool changeover, production can resume virtually immediately.

Microset offers solutions from the simplest stand alone to the most sophisticated solution which provides tool data communication by direct DNC to the machine tool, to factory data communication systems or to external computer systems to enable the user to fully integrate the pre-setting function.

Features include:

• A full range of vertical and horizontal machines for setting lathe, spindle, boring, milling and reaming tools
• Tool setting capacities to 1,000mm diameter and 770mm length
• High accuracy from heavily ribbed, rigid and stable cast iron construction
• Manual or CNC operation
• Range of Microset digital and computer positioning systems
• Optical, non-contact tool pre-setting. (Mechanical cutting edge scanning is offered as an option)
• Microvision, the very latest in tool pre-setting vision systems
• Interface to tool identification tag systems
• interfaces or label, list, bar-code printing and for a tape punch/reader
• DNC communication
• Data communication to external computer systems including proprietary tool management systems

Pre-Setting Boring Bars/Rings Boring Tools Shorthole Drills G.A. Tooling Twin Bore Tribore Modular Tooling Spindle Tooling Formbore 3D Tasters