New Sturdy DRO with Touch Screen for Machining

HEIDENHAIN announces the new POSITIP 8016 digital readout (DRO) with touch screen for manual machine tool applications, replacing HEIDENHAIN’s long-time workhorse — the PT 880 DRO. With its sturdy machined aluminum housing, this new DRO promises to add reliability, ease-of-use and more functionality to milling, drilling, boring and turning jobs.

Besides the added touch screen, the PT 8016 DRO offers a multitude of user-friendly functions including a Taper Calculator, Bolt-Hole Pattern routine and Tool Radius Compensator. This DRO also includes distance-to-go modes in both absolute and incremental. Unlike the PT 880, this new DRO can control of up to three NC analog, point-to-point axes and a spindle when using the optional “ACTIVE Version.”

This new HEIDENHAIN PT 8016 DRO also features a shop-hardened 12” Color TFT Touch Screen with an IP65 front panel and an IP40 back panel. Users can plug-in up to six encoders – either 1Vpp or 11µApp incremental or absolute EnDat 2.2 pure serial. It has storage for up to 100 datums and 100 tool parameters, as well as the capability to create, store and execute programs.

This new PT 8016 DRO stands alongside the recently released ND 5023 and ND 7013 to round-out the new HEIDENHAIN family of digital readouts.