SNI's New Hi-Rez™ Slide System

Is your company looking for every opportunity to reduce costs and improve productivity with a quick and easy payback?

SNI's latest development, the Hi-Rez™ Slide System enables users to achieve 21^st century grinding capability with a minimum investment. We know of no other retrofit package for Heald CF grinders today that delivers the performance and rapid payback of SNI's Hi-Rez™ Slide System. For an investment of a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding, the Hi-Rez™ solution:

	Substantially reduces maintenance costs and down time.
	Cuts set-up time.
	Increases productivity through faster cycles.
	Reduces abrasive costs by achieving greater efficiencies with conventional and super abrasives.
	Improves quality without the need for ancillary devices such as linear glass scales and in-process gauges.

Very simply, SNI's Hi-Rez™ Slide System is delivered as a new CF servo-motor driven cross slide - a direct replacement for the one currently in operation on your machine. With the slide, SNI delivers a completely new electrical control main panel and operator's panel, both pre-wired, and ready for installation in your machine. The package provides a full color touch screen for operator interface, and SNI's state-of-the-art grinding software. Imagine the benefits of a single solution package that costs a small fraction of the price for machine rebuilding or replacement, installs easily and quickly, and permanently rids the CF of costly headaches, such as the:

	Old stepping motor drive and the complex compensation mechanism and its gears, stops, bearings, etc.
	Old CF electrical controls, including Cross Slide Control Unit, thumb wheel switches, LED's, printed circuit boards, relays and related wiring and electrical components - all tired, ineffective for 21st century grinding requirements, and very expensive to maintain.
	Old hydraulic feed components that require setting, adjustment, and rarely repeat.
	Old fashion switches for new wheel, worn wheel, and wheel size, that have to be set and adjusted, cause headaches for maintenance people, and deliver inconsistent performance from set-up to set-up.
	The larger/smaller unit that delivers 1960's technology, while substantially limiting the CF machine to achieve demanding Cp/Cpk requirements, and to take full advantage of advances in abrasive technology.

The benefits to your operations:

	Faster set-up, multiple part program storage, and settings that deliver .000010" resolution.
	Faster grind cycles, by allowing optimum grind and dress rates to be programmed, and repeated, while enabling the machine to dress-compensate at finite values, and to skip dress multiple cycles. This new capability enables the CF to use and optimize super abrasives such as CBN.
	Reduction in abrasive costs by allowing specific comp values to be entered and repeated, and to minimally dress super abrasives for their maximum economy.
	Accuracy of cross slide improves by 50% or substantially more, allowing gage or scale feedback tolerances to be achieved without the costs associated with gages or scales.
	Easier/Low-cost maintenance: No more gears, larger/smaller unit, wheel-wear switches, or even glass scales to maintain. Also gone are the old Heald OEM controls that are very expensive to maintain.
	The reliability of a new control, performance of a high resolution cross slide, and the net productivity and quality derived from SNI's software marriage of the two significant elements.
	High performance at a minimum cost = high return on investment.

If you have any questions or would like to receive additional information regarding this or other products, we would like to hear from you. Let SNI show you how the Hi-Rez™ Slide System can make a difference. Call us at (508) 754-2739 or use our Contact Us web form.

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