ECONOMICAL BRIDGEPORT VMC WITH ADVANCED CONTROLS
The Bridgeport GX-1000 vertical machining center from Hardinge is outfitted with an Okuma open-architecture control system for the drives, motors and encoders.
Posted: October 29, 2010
The Hardinge Inc. (Elmira, NY) Bridgeport GX-1000 40 in x 21 in vertical machining center has been designed with the Okuma OSP-P200 control, drives, motors and encoders. Rick Simons, president and CEO of Hardinge, commented, "The addition of the Okuma control option for our GX 1000 machine enhances the product offerings for our U.S. distribution partners. We will also continue to offer the Bridgeport line with the Fanuc I Series control to serve our diversified U.S. customer base."
"Combining the Hardinge GX-1000 vertical machining center with Okuma's world-leading open architecture control system will enable customers seeking a value-priced VMC to enjoy the productivity benefits of the latest CNC control technology," said Lee Morris, chairman and CEO of Morris Group, Inc. "Okuma has been manufacturing CNC controls, drives and motors since 1961 and the OSP-P200 has awesome performance and reliability."
The OSP-P200 is a true open-architecture Windows-based CNC control enabling a user to take advantage of industry standard and off]the]shelf plug and play devices by using the onboard Ethernet or USB slots, and because of its open architecture almost any software application can be installed. In addition to 3rd party software, data and communications between the machine and control are easy to exploit with the documented API set which comes at no additional cost to customers. Users frequently integrate OSP controlled machines with enterprise manufacturing information systems. The OSP control comes standard with a 15-in LCD touch screen, 512 MB of RAM, a 40 GB hard drive and runs the Windows operating system.
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