Software

Excellent results and high efficiency
with our digital solutions for smart grinding

In mod­ern mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing, not only the machine itself deter­mines the qual­ity of the grind­ing results, but the soft­ware as well. For many years, our WOTAN® grind­ing machines have fea­tured the in-house WOP™ Touch inter­face – a soft­ware solu­tion that enables our cus­tomers world­wide to fully exploit the pre­ci­sion of our machines and unlock the full poten­tial of the machines with­out any pro­gram­ming knowledge. 

CNC by WOTAN® – NO µ WITHOUT BYTES

Our extreme pre­ci­sion is built on the excep­tion­ally robust and sophis­ti­cated design and man­u­fac­ture of our WOTAN® machines, as well as on our many years of expe­ri­ence in grind­ing machine engi­neer­ing. Today, how­ever, the deci­sive extra in per­fec­tion can only be achieved through our highly advanced and smart CNC programs. 

Our next-gen­er­a­tion CNC con­trol sys­tem based on SINU­MERIK ONE enables extremely fine-tuned move­ments through the pre­cise con­trol of all machine axes and com­po­nents, allow­ing even highly com­plex geome­tries to be machined effi­ciently and with pre­ci­sion in the range of <1 µm.

The inte­gra­tion of touch probes accel­er­ates machin­ing and cre­ates the con­di­tions for closed-door machin­ing. Our dynamic steady rest con­trol sys­tem, WOTAN® Dynamic Rest, enables highly pre­cise posi­tion cor­rec­tions for par­tic­u­larly long and slen­der work­pieces. In addi­tion, our CNC soft­ware mon­i­tors the con­di­tion of the grind­ing tools and allows them to be dressed and adjusted automatically.

Safety for People and Machines

Our stan­dards include ESR and Siemens Safety Inte­grated for two-chan­nel monitoring.

Condition Monitoring

As an option, WOTAN® machines can be equipped with Iron­Mind, NSH’s pro­pri­etary ser­vice tool.

WOP™ Touch — parameterization instead of programming

WOP™ Touch is our pow­er­ful and user-friendly inter­face and the smart cen­ter of your grind­ing oper­a­tion. Intu­itive oper­a­tion and intel­li­gent func­tions ensure a high level of safety and reduced non-pro­duc­tive times. Flex­i­ble cus­tomiza­tion options allow inte­gra­tion into your pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ment. In a dia­log-guided inter­face, you para­me­ter­ize your grind­ing tasks entirely with­out any CNC knowledge. 

WOP™ Touch pro­vides all func­tions required for sub-microm­e­ter-accu­rate cylin­dri­cal grind­ing in plunge grind­ing, lon­gi­tu­di­nal grind­ing and angu­lar plunge grinding.

The inte­grated dress­ing man­age­ment sys­tem enables the dress­ing of cylin­dri­cal and angled grind­ing wheels, soft­ware-based com­pen­sa­tion of the dress­ing allowances, and spe­cific dress­ing of the cut­ting edge.

Its func­tion­al­ity includes the inte­gra­tion of touch probes for zero-point deter­mi­na­tion, lon­gi­tu­di­nal posi­tion­ing and process cor­rec­tion, as well as inte­grated com­pen­sa­tion man­age­ment.

People at the Center

WOP™ Touch grows with your require­ments. Whether in sin­gle-part or series pro­duc­tion, WOP™ Touch opti­mizes work­flows, increases pro­duc­tiv­ity, and makes your grind­ing processes smarter and safer.

Our intu­itive user inter­face com­bines all the capa­bil­i­ties of a WOTAN® machine with a no-code approach. It guides oper­a­tors step by step to the fin­ished grind­ing pro­gram, with inte­grated tool man­age­ment, auto­matic inter­me­di­ate mea­sure­ments, and machine sta­tis­tics for process reli­a­bil­ity and efficiency.

Each user can con­fig­ure the inter­face accord­ing to their own needs, adapt it to their per­sonal way of work­ing, and save their indi­vid­ual setup. Inte­grated screen­shot and com­ment func­tions sim­plify seam­less com­mu­ni­ca­tion and sup­port bind­ing process documentation.

Safety and Availability

Inte­grated user man­age­ment pre­vents unin­tended changes, our trial-run mode allows grind­ing pro­grams to be tested with the machine door open, and our high-qual­ity con­trollers pro­vide opti­cal and hap­tic feedback.

Our soft­ware also includes remote main­te­nance func­tions for fast sup­port and diag­nos­tics, as well as just-in-time pro­vi­sion of con­sum­ables, wear parts and grind­ing tools. This helps you min­i­mize downtime.

WOP™ – the PLUS in functionality for WOP™ Touch

With our advanced mod­ules, you can extend the func­tion­al­ity of WOP™ Touch with addi­tional func­tions for machin­ing com­plex geome­tries. Active mod­ules are seam­lessly inte­grated into our inter­face. As with our machines, you ben­e­fit from mod­u­lar­ity through soft­ware that pre­cisely reflects your require­ments and lets you decide which func­tions you want to provide. 

WOP™ Con­tour

Cre­ate para­me­ter­i­z­able inter­nal and exter­nal con­tours – either indi­vid­u­ally or adjoin­ing diam­e­ters. Opti­mized geom­e­try tran­si­tions help increase work­piece strength. This ++Mod­ule makes it easy to cre­ate com­plex con­tour paths.

WOP™ Dresser

Cre­ate sophis­ti­cated free-form dress­ing func­tions in our free-form edi­tor for pro­fil­ing and re-pro­fil­ing grind­ing wheels for appli­ca­tion-spe­cific spe­cial geometries.

WOP™ Thread

Grind and regrind high-pre­ci­sion threads. Cre­ate thread grind­ing cycles — met­ric, trape­zoidal, ball screw and Whit­worth — for sin­gle-rib and multi-rib grind­ing wheels, includ­ing thread-posi­tion mea­sure­ment using a touch probe.

WOP™ Unround

Your access to non-cir­cu­lar grind­ing using the C axis and advanced algo­rithms for pro­duc­ing defined cross-sec­tional forms on rotat­ing parts, with reduced setup effort through the use of a stan­dard tool.

WOP™ Unround MAX

Real­ize high-end non-cir­cu­lar grind­ing on our cylin­dri­cal grind­ing machines. Reduce setup times and grind com­plex con­tour paths — round and non-cir­cu­lar — with a sin­gle tool. With Unround MAX, you can machine cams and poly­gons pre­cisely and efficiently.

Für einen sta­bilen, dynamis­chen Schleif­prozess steuert Unround MAX die Achsantriebe direkt an und kann dadurch selbst anspruchsvollen Prozessvor­gaben exakt fol­gen. Fein­stko­r­rek­turen im Tausend­s­tel-Grad-Bere­ich sor­gen für außergewöhn­liche Genauigkeit und kon­stant präzise Ergebnisse.

Thanks to high path accu­racy in dynamic oper­a­tion, you achieve repro­ducibly pre­cise results at all times. Even with its pow­er­ful func­tion­al­ity, Unround MAX remains easy to operate.

AE by WOTAN® – Hearing precision where measurement reaches its limits

With our advanced mod­ules, you can extend the func­tion­al­ity of WOP™ Touch with addi­tional func­tions for machin­ing com­plex geome­tries. Active mod­ules are seam­lessly inte­grated into our inter­face. As with our machines, you ben­e­fit from mod­u­lar­ity through soft­ware that pre­cisely reflects your require­ments and lets you decide which func­tions you want to provide. 

In high-end grind­ing tech­nol­ogy, every µ deter­mines process reli­a­bil­ity and thus eco­nomic effi­ciency. WOTAN® grind­ing machines offer the use of acoustic emis­sion tech­nol­ogy (AE) to ensure pre­ci­sion where con­ven­tional sen­sor tech­nol­ogy reaches its lim­its – espe­cially in the crit­i­cal processes of dress­ing and spark-in detection. 

We optimize your process

Depend­ing on the machine and require­ments, we inte­grate the sen­sor tech­nol­ogy where it deliv­ers the great­est ben­e­fit and sup­port you in the opti­mal process design with regard to fluid trans­mis­sion, struc­ture-borne sound, lam­i­nar flow and opti­mized sig­nal paths.