Droop & Rein CNC Retrofit January 2008
Removing the tired 10 Year old Fidia CNC from this machine has transformed it from an unreliable inaccurate machine in to a state of the art user friendly machine tool.
Using an OSAI 10/510i CNC in conjunction with a WinMedia Panel, we customised the screen layout for the customers specific needs and installed CADEM CAD/CAM system directly at the control for part program creation.

Nikken Rotary Table CNC Retrofit January 2008
After the original controller for this CNC Rotary Table failed and there was no service or spare parts available for the system, it was time to throw it away or replace the control.
We replaced the original controller with an OSAI 10/110 CNC which was made to be portable so the table could be placed and interface with any other machine on the site.
We also so designed the system to connect with a 2nd Rotary Indexing table which had some similar problems further expanding the flexibility of the operation.

Matrix CNC Mill Retrofit December 2007
This machine was originally a manual machine, but as it had ball screws to all axes, it was the perfect machine to retrofit.
We supplied an OSAI 10/110 Light CNC retrofit kit and the system was installed by the customer.

L Type Elga Mill Retrofit November 2007

OSAI CNC - WinMedia Panel

WinMedia is the new intelligent operator panel that provides a high-level Panel-PC, with pre-installed multilingual Windows XP and the new OSAI WinNBI interface operator in a network based Windows environment. This gives a user friendly operator interface complete with graphics.
With WinMedia, and the new OSAI WinNBI (Windows Network Based Interface), you have a user- friendly operator interface, with graphics, which can be customised with a mouse and "Point and Click” and “Drag and Drop" techniques. There is no need for in depth knowledge of programming within a Windows environment.

With WinNBI it is possible to create visual representations of test configurations without having to insertion of elements such as Axes, Feed. Speed, and G, M, T functions. You can modify fonts and colours, to produce different views each of which can be associated with one or more processes according to the specification required by the application. As well as being based on COM/DCOM technology aligned with the distributed architecture, WinNBI can interface with several CNCs and be distributed around different points of the factory network.

To satisfy all the functions required by a control unit, OSAI have introduced a new operator console , that can be connected to the CNC either through the new proprietary OS-WIRE bus or through the standard CANOpen interface.

New OS³ Digital Drives

Series OS³: is a family of Motors and Digital Drives, that are prefect for integration with Series 10 or Power GP numerical controls. Our propriatary digital bus, based on OS-Wire with its high specification (90 MHzes) is a brand new concept enabling the Drives to operate as an integrated component of the numerical control with assured flexibility and advanced performance.

OS3 drives can be directly connected to the 3 phase supply network. They operate with a nominal 400V to 480V AC power input. This characteristic allows the product to be used in applications in a variety of geographical locations without need for a transformer to adapt to the local power source. The drives have an internal supply derived from the 3 phase to feed the control’s electronics. This feature allows dynamic breaking in the event of interruption of the power network. The control’s electronics are also supported by an external 24v d.c. supply. During the dynamic breaking phase, energy accumulated by the load is dissipated across internal breaking resistors. For extremely heavy work cycles an external breaking resistor can be connected in place of, or in parallel with the internal resistors. In common with most drives, the high-tension bus is accessible through a connector, this allows the use of external supplies containing breaking resistance. Various motors with different technologies can be controlled, such as permanent magnet motors, brush-less motors, induction motors and variable reluctance motors. The standard transducer is a sinusoidal encoder (Sin-Cos). Programmable inputs and outputs increase the drive’s flexibility. The OS3 family of drives is available in 6 different power ranges beginning with the minimum 3,5A nominal current (2,5Kw) up to 30A (21Kw). All versions utilise the same internal control module.