Positive Contact Sensors (PCS), or PCS Tool Sensors, have been installed to monitor broken tools on every imaginable metal cutting machine tool. This page provides actual photographs of PCS Tool Sensors installed on many of the most popular machines chosen for broken tool detection.
CNC Lathes • Machining Centers • Multi-spindle Screw Machines
Swiss Style Screw Machines • Sliding Headstock Machines • Mill Turn Machines
Transfer Machines • Special Purpose Machines • MANY Other Uses
PCS ON A MULTI-SPINDLE SCREW MACHINE
PCS ON A HMC
PCS ON A TORNOS CNC LATHE
PCS ON A SPECIAL DRILLING MACHINE
PCS ON A MIYANO CNC LATHE
PCS ON A CNC LATHE CHECKING FOR PART CUT OFF
PCS ON A SCREW MACHINE
PCS ON A ROTARY TRANSFER MACHINE
PCS ON A ROTARY TRANSFER MACHINE
PCS WITH MSB-28 ON A CNC LATHE
PCS ON A MULTI-SPINDLE SCREW MACHINE
PCS ON A HYDROMAT ROTARY TRANSFER
Where Would I Use a Broken Tool Sensor?
Tool Monitoring
As a tool sensor on Automatic Machines, you can use PCS to check cylindrical shank cutting tools such as drills, taps, reamers or special form tools. Multi-Spindle Screw Machines and Chuckers are popular PCS applications. Its small size, speed and sealing provide excellent protection for main slide tooling. CNC Lathes and Machining Centers also provide great applications for PCS. One sensor can monitor problem drills, taps, reamers or end mills on demand regardless of significant tool to tool diameter changes. Use it for the tough jobs when you need it or leave it idle when you don’t. PCS is always ready when you are. Among our most popular applications are Transfer Machines, Trunnion Machines, Swiss Style Screw Machines, Sliding Headstock Machines, Mill Turn Machines and Special Purpose Machines. Here again, speed, sealing design and a rugged gear box free construction make them ideal for three shift production lines.
Object or Free Space Monitoring
Check material misfeeds on bar machines, cut off confirmation on lathes, mis-chucked parts on automatic chuckers, part pick-off on sub spindle machines and numerous assembly operations. Use PCS anyplace swing type sensing provides a solution to an evasive problem other methods can’t solve.
