Okuma’s new GA26W high speed, compact grinder is equipped with the intelligent OSP-P300G CNC control. The open architecture OSP-P control runs on a Windows-based platform and fully integrates the machine, motors, drives and encoders.
Machine builders are starting to face limitations with the traditional CNC control, opening the door for platform based approach to CNC as they allow higher performance, flexibility and cost management. By David Chia, MD of Beckhoff Automation