iAdapt

iAdapt

Reduce your roughing cycle times by up to 40% with iAdapt adaptive control technology for your new or existing milling and turning machines. Eliminate the need for operator intervention to overcome variation in material hardness, depth and width of cut, and tool wear, to turbo-charge your metal removal rate and extend tool life. GE Fanuc has adaptive solutions to for new and legacy machines. iAdapt-s is designed to be integrated into new CNCs by machine tool builders and retrofitters. iAdapt-r is designed to be retrofitted to existing machines on the shop floor.

Overview
The iAdapt familiy maximizes material removal rate by automatically adjusting the axes feedrate to maintain a target spindle power, compensating for process variation and eliminating the need for conservative part programming practices. Limits monitoring protects the machine, and the constant load prolongs tool life. Most of the features and benefits apply equaly to the iAdapt family.

Benefits
  • Reduce cycle time by up to 40%
  • Realize a high return on investment with quick payback
  • Automatically optimize every part in real time, including the first
  • Compensate for material and process variation:
    - Material hardness
    - Depth of cut
    - Width of cut
    - Tool wear
  • Eliminate need for manual part program optimization
  • Process any material type
  • Protect the machine from damage with limits monitoring
  • Automate limit-actions with Interrupt-Type Macro integration
  • Complement GE Fanuc’s other machine optimization solutions
  • Reduce human error with an automated solution
  • Increase tool life by applying constant cutting loads

iAdapt-s
iAdapt-s is ideal for integration into newer CNCs by machine tool builders, retrofitters, re-builders and remanufacturers. iAdapt-s can be used with Series 30i, 31i, 32i, and Series 16i and 18i Model B controls.

  • No external hardware to mount or interconnect
  • Fine-resolution feedrate control
  • Integrated status and graphing displays 
  • Torque override
  • Spindle "dither" control

iAdapt-r
iAdapt-r is ideal for retrofitting existing machines on the shop floor. It can be applied to most GE Fanuc or FANUC CNCs using high-speed IO Link communications, and to older legacy and third-party CNCs using a serial communications protocol. It can also be applied to new machines that are already using a C-Language Executor application.

  • Can be applied to widest range of machine tools
  • Multi-path support 
  • No conflicts with other C-Language Executor applications 
Additional Information

Success Stories

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