Costantino is a powerful and flexible CNC that allows you to obtain maximum results with minimum effort for all types of applications.
Costantino CNC is the ideal solution for both new machines and retrofits.
Machines equipped with Costantino CNC are able to meet all Industry 4.0 requirements.
All our experience with these machines
Engraving machines
3-axis machines that produce small sculpted parts with mirror finish requirements.
Milling machines, boring machines, drilling machines
Orientation tools relative to the raw part for 3 to 5-axis machines.
Turning machines
3-axis machines with raw piece rotation and tools mounted on turrets.
Transfer machines
Multi-station machines that each perform a specific task in the process sequence.
Main CNC features
• PC-based solution: a single hardware containing the CNC together with HMI and CAM with completely separate and independent resources, to increase reliability, simplify the production of real-world programs and reduce costs
• Look ahead up to 256 blocks, over 15,000 instructions per second
• Multi-channel architecture capable of executing several part-programs simultaneously and synchronizing them
• Standard ISO6983 syntax for complete definition of parametric machining and nesting programming, simplifying the interface with third-party CAD-CAM
• Up to 96 controlled axes, some of which are dedicated to machining, the remaining ones for moving the piece and blocks
• Gantry Axes
• Typical Motion Control features available in CNC: gears in position, electronic cams
• Controlled jerk movements for all axes involved in the movement and separately for the tool tip, to avoid mechanical stress and obtain the best finishing surface
• Automatic adjustment of the spindle rotation speed according to programming, to maintain a constant speed or to maintain a constant amount of material removed during turning
• Threading on turning
• Tapping on milling
• High speed machining to smooth edges while maintaining a defined tolerance, to reduce mechanical vibrations, reduce machining times and improve finishing results
• Superfinishing machining algorithms
• Volumetric compensation of positioning inaccuracies due to mechanical asymmetries and machine misalignments
• Vibration suppression algorithms to prevent damage to workpieces, extend machine life and increase machining quality
• Coordinates and operating origins for rototranslation and mirror machining
• High speed machining available on 5-axis interpolation
• Programming of tool tip position and orientation with Tool Centre Point (TCP) applied to bi-rotary heads, tilting tables and 5-axis mill-turn configurations
• Availability of TCP parameter auto-calibration cycles. The newly obtained parameters can correct the part programs generated by CAM to adapt to reality.
• Support for many different digital servo interfaces for controlling servos with position or velocity reference
• Speed and torque feed forward to have a trajectory following error close to 0
• OPC UA server for connection with MES
• Remote I/O connected with EtherCAT fieldbus to allow the exchange of thousands of I/O signals
• IO-Link interface gateway
• Safety integrated with FSoE
HMI
• Easy OEM HMI integration using reusable user controls or interface customization provided by ISAC
• High definition interactive machining preview that the operator can rotate, pan or zoom in. The path already
cut is identified using different colors to quickly understand the extent of work done
• Simulation environment available to check mechanical constraints and collision before executing the part-program, evaluate machining times and optimize work cycles
Tools
• Tool life management
• Tool pre-setting, wear calculation and online integrity control
• Automatic and highly efficient tool change management
• Compensation of the lathe tool size at the virtual tool tip or radius compensation
• Advanced milling tool radius compensation with large geometric look ahead to prevent damage to workpieces
• Quick and automatic tool change with linear, rotating and tray tool magazine
• Random tool change with tool family management
Work aids
• Resumes processing after an unexpected shutdown from the last executed block or from any graphically selected block. Works with repeats and nested macros.
• Support for suspension of processing, manual control and maintenance and resumption from the trajectory position
• After resuming, the change in tool length is automatically compensated
• Safely withdraw tool from material in the current arbitrary direction of the tool Robotic module
• The CNC can control the kinematics of robots such as DELTA, SCARA, PUMA
• OEM can create additional robot kinematics
• The trajectory of picking, loading and unloading of the piece performed by the robot can be controlled by CAM itself which knows the geometry of the raw piece and the finished piece in an appropriate way
PLC logic environment
• Powerful PLC logic shell compliant with IEC61131 standard
• Extensive application libraries
