We waited 2 years, but we finally got it

No one in Europe has ever come up with an idea like ours.

Only a handful of elite engineering teams worldwide can set up gigantic industrial machine tool manufacturing facilities with exceptional precision.

However, it takes more than just two axes to grind and assemble the intricate components required for expensive industrial machinery. CNC machines are utilized to produce such parts: reliable machine tools capable of enduring heavy metal machining while maintaining speed and precision.

The higher the contour accuracy or the smoother the surface finish of a part, the longer it takes to manufacture. Moreover, achieving such accuracy demands precise parameters and adjustments, which is no easy task. Even the most experienced commissioning engineers cannot accomplish it immediately. Typically, they spend weeks iteratively fine-tuning the machine through several rounds to attain the optimal setting. This process consumes a significant amount of time, raw materials, and human resources, not to mention money.

Nevertheless, two of our colleagues, Árpád and Emánuel, have devised a solution to address the gaps in this intricate engineering process. Their novel approach to the Sinumerik Tuning Center (STC) application enables commissioning engineers to tune machine tools more easily than ever before, thereby saving time, money, and human effort.

Their idea involves bypassing the lengthy iterative configuration. By leveraging previous optimization data, big data and machine learning methods, they provide approximate estimates for the necessary adjustments to production machines. This database is built upon information extracted from the optimization of past users.

This idea has now progressed to the point of being patented by Siemens, a milestone we waited two years to achieve.

”It's somewhat akin to giving birth. Pregnancy was filled with unexpected surprises, emotional ups and downs, and the struggles of labour. However, in the end, we were immensely joyful when we finally received our 'birth certificate'!”

We are proud of our colleagues and extend our congratulations to them for their remarkable success.

For more technical details about the project, you can visit evosoft's LinkedIn page.

Furthermore, in this video, one of the masterminds, Árpád, shares the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Sinumerik Tuning Center. (Video is in Hungarian.)