New technology functions for Sinumerik One simplify operation and increase productivity

Siemens is expand­ing its offer­ing around the Sinu­merik One “dig­i­tal native” CNC. The new CNC gen­er­a­tion from Siemens, which was intro­duced to the mar­ket in 2019, is also com­ing up with inno­va­tions in soft­ware and hard­ware this year. With the new Sinu­merik V6.20 soft­ware, there are new tech­nol­o­gy func­tions for the Sinu­merik One that sim­pli­fy oper­a­tion, reduce machine wear, and increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Siemens is thus demon­strat­ing once again how the pow­er­ful Sinu­merik One machine tool con­trol sys­tem can be opti­mal­ly used for dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion in a high­ly pro­duc­tive, flex­i­ble, and mod­u­lar way.

With the new Y‑turning func­tion, Sinu­merik One can now be used for machines that turn from the Y‑axis, enabling up to 3 times the feed rate and result­ing in increased pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. New tool types were cre­at­ed for this pur­pose and all turn­ing func­tion­al­i­ties and cycles were adapt­ed for these tools.

The Advanced Rapid Move­ment func­tion is also one of the inno­va­tions in the tech­nol­o­gy func­tions. It enables time-opti­mized move­ment, which means that faster move­ments take place between machin­ing oper­a­tions. The part pro­gram does not have to be changed for this. Over­all, machin­ing can be up to ten per­cent faster. The func­tion must be imple­ment­ed togeth­er with the machine builder.

With Reduced Dynam­ic Mode, there is now a func­tion that reduces wear on the machine and thus increas­es its avail­abil­i­ty. The NCK func­tion enables the machine tool builder to auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­fer the machine tool to reduced oper­a­tion, for exam­ple if the axis becomes too warm. On the oth­er hand, the machine can also be returned to full load. In this way, the Reduced Dynam­ic Mode enables indi­vid­ual oper­a­tion in motion.

In the area of hard­ware, there are also inno­va­tions for the Sinu­merik One that are designed to sim­pli­fy oper­a­tion: The new key­boards and Machine Con­trol Pan­els (MCPs) are now avail­able from 15 to 24 inch­es con­sis­tent­ly to match the HMI. And the Simat­ic Indus­tri­al Thin Clients (ITCs) and indus­tri­al PCs are being launched with increased per­for­mance and a res­o­lu­tion of up to 1920 x 1080 pixels.

The new MCPs are also inte­grat­ed in the dig­i­tal twin of Sinu­merik One (Cre­ate and Run MyVir­tu­al Machine), so that the appear­ance and oper­a­tion here cor­re­spond to the real CNC in every respect. In addi­tion, the dig­i­tal twin of Sinu­merik One has been giv­en new fea­tures that sim­pli­fy engi­neer­ing and work prepa­ra­tion. To men­tion just a few of the many inno­va­tions: The /3D option offers sup­port for a sec­ond chan­nel. In addi­tion, each tool can be assigned an indi­vid­ual col­or, so that the ablat­ed sur­faces are col­or-cod­ed depend­ing on the tool used. The import of STEP for­mat is an impor­tant fea­ture espe­cial­ly for com­plex geome­tries of the clamp­ing sit­u­a­tion of a turn­ing oper­a­tion. Col­li­sion detec­tion now also offers exten­sive func­tion­al­i­ties such as the dis­play of all col­lid­ed bod­ies, NC pro­gram line and much more, so that the cause of col­li­sions can be quick­ly inves­ti­gat­ed and eliminated.

Back­ground infor­ma­tion Sinu­merik One

Sinu­merik One plays a cen­tral role in the trans­for­ma­tion of machine tools in the age of Indus­try 4.0, out­per­form­ing pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions of con­trollers in terms of PLC and CNC per­for­mance in machine oper­a­tion, cut­ting speed, and data cap­ture and pro­cess­ing pow­er. With its inte­grat­ed Simat­ic S7-1500F PLC, it offers up to 10 times faster PLC cycle times. With the Simat­ic S7-1500F PLC, Sinu­merik One is ful­ly inte­grat­ed into the TIA Por­tal engi­neer­ing frame­work, enabling stan­dard­iza­tion of all engi­neer­ing tasks for oper­a­tors of larg­er plants. Sinu­merik One is ful­ly com­pat­i­ble with the pre­vi­ous Sinu­merik 840D sl con­troller gen­er­a­tion in terms of pro­gram­ming and oper­a­tion. This makes the changeover to Sinu­merik One even easier.

With Sinu­merik One, Siemens offers the tech­nol­o­gy to eas­i­ly cre­ate and work with dig­i­tal twins of machine tools. Work prepa­ra­tion and engi­neer­ing depart­ments can also ben­e­fit from the dig­i­tal twin. Siemens offers a com­pre­hen­sive user inter­face for Sinu­merik One that enables con­ve­nient, flex­i­ble, and effi­cient oper­a­tion of machine tools across all technologies.