Machine tools

Products from HEIDENHAIN, along with its AMO, ETEL, and RSF brands, are used in a variety of machining equipment.
Milling and turning machines top the list, joined by machines for grinding, EDM, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, sheet-metal bending, and 3D printing.

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Rotary encoders, angle encoders, and linear encoders position rotary and linear axes with extreme accuracy. Grid encoders and touch probes measure the machine, workpiece, or tool. Motors, drives, and controller technology accurately and dynamically move axes and tools along the desired path. Milling and turning controls provide the shopfloor user with exceptional support in solving a wide variety of machining challenges.

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Milling machines
Turning machines
Grinding machines and other types

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Work more accurately
Manufacture with process reliability
Cut more efficiently
Network intelligently
Automate flexibly
Master 5-axis machining

Accuracy, process reliability, efficiency, digitalization, and automation: discover our solutions for the most important machine tool topics.

Work more accurately

Encoders for closed loop operation

Measuring the actual position of an axis with linear and angle encoders compensates for negative mechanical effects from the drive system. This increases workpiece accuracy for everything from single-part production to large production runs.

Here's how closed loop control works

Milling with the actual radius

Circularity errors in radius cutter geometry have a negative effect on the machining result. TNC controls compensate for these errors with the 3D-ToolComp tool radius compensation function.

Perfect contours with 3D-ToolComp

Optimize motion control

Use Cycle 32, TOLERANCE, to achieve the optimal balance between accuracy and dynamic performance for every machining step: greater contour accuracy and smoothness during finishing and the maximized feed rate during roughing.

Here's how Cycle 32, TOLERANCE, works

Compensate for insufficient data quality

In NC programs with insufficient data quality, ADP dynamically calculates the contour in advance. This results in perfect surfaces, even if point distribution in neighboring tool paths fluctuates strongly.

Mill accurately and evenly with ADP

Manufacture with reproducible accuracy

KinematicsOpt allows you to recalibrate your milling machine in just minutes, giving you optimal machining results and consistently high quality, even over long production runs.

Calibrate your machine with KinematicsOpt

Important helpers: touch probes

Touch probes are universal and indispensable helpers in machine tools. They reduce setup time, increase machine utilization time, and improve finished part dimensional accuracy.

See our range of touch probes

Jig grinding with the TNC 640: achieve perfect finishes in a single setup

Greater machining efficiency

More chips in less time

Dynamic Efficiency ensures process reliability and efficiency during heaving machining. This package of functions includes Active Chatter Control (ACC), Adaptive Feed Control (AFC), trochoidal milling, and OCM, which applies trochoidal milling strategies to a wider range of workpieces.

Learn more about Dynamic Efficiency

Precise machining in less time

Dynamic Precision maximizes a machine’s accuracy. Its functions compensate for acceleration-based position errors (CTC), dampen vibrations (MVC), and adapt controller parameters based on the position (PAC), load (LAC), or motion (MAC).

Find out more about Dynamic Precision

Milling and turning with the same TNC

The TNC 640 provides full milling and turning functionality. Standardized cycles let you program both machining modes with ease. You can even switch between milling and turning mode as desired within the same program.

The benefits of complete machining

Grinding for a perfect finish

Along with milling and turning, the TNC 640 also excels at jig grinding, allowing you to machine parts with exceptional surface quality in a single setup. Easy-to-use standard cycles can dress your grinding tools inside the machine tool.

Grinding on a milling machine

Gear cutting made easy

The hobbing and skiving cycles of the TNC 640 allow you to easily manufacture complete high-quality internal and external gears with straight and helical teeth in a single setup. The software allows both machining operations to be performed in milling and turning mode.

Hobbing and skiving made easy

Knowledge for technicians and end users

Optimal measurement and milling results require the proper use of encoders and a firm mastery of controls. Our training courses cover encoders, controls, and other topics, providing practical, efficient, and user-oriented instruction.

Discover our training courses

Always mill with optimal cutting data: trochoidal milling with OCM for any pocket or island

TNC Club: efficient learning opportunities for control operators

The TNC Club is the meeting point for experts, with extensive learning opportunities to help users of HEIDENHAIN controls perform machining operations more efficiently.
Club members benefit from special training courses, events, and workshops for deepening their knowledge of controls.

Network intelligently

Digitally network your shop floor

The Digital Shop Floor provides solutions for small- and medium-sized companies for gaining a 360° digital view of all processes, from quoting to quality control and final shipment. These solutions don’t require cloud computing and can be combined as desired for individual needs.

The Digital Shop Floor options

Analyze and optimize processes

Everywhere and at all times, StateMonitor gives you insight into the statuses of your connected machine tools. Thanks to extensive machine data recording and intelligent data analysis, StateMonitor makes operational processes more transparent.

What StateMonitor can do for you

Fast and reliably productive

Use the actual kinematics, parameters, and functions of your machine on the shop floor for design and programming work in the office. The Digital Twin brings an accurate model of your machine to a programming station.

Program with the Digital Twin

Link your HEIDENHAIN controls

Connected Machining on HEIDENHAIN controls uses intelligent solutions to link your process chain from the design department to the shop floor to final shipping. You benefit from optimized productivity, cost efficiency, quality, on-time reliability, and time management.

Network with Connected Machining

Program with ease

When creating NC programs at the control on the shop floor or at the programming station in the office, you can import contours and machining positions directly from 3D files. As a result, the machined contours perfectly match the designer’s requirements.

Upload data with CAD Import

The advantages of digitalized and automated manufacturing

Find out more about automation

Many automation solutions utilize HEIDENHAIN products such as the innovative KCI 120 Dplus dual encoder for motor feedback and position measurement, all in a single rotary encoder for advanced robotics applications. Visit these pages to discover more about it, along with many other products and applications:

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