GE Fanuc Automation Americas, Inc., a unit of GE Infrastructure, has announced new Machine Tool Retrofit solutions – which help machine tool users leverage existing equipment assets to cost effectively improve productivity and quality, and increase competitiveness in today’s challenging business environment.

            Available through GE Fanuc and GE Fanuc-certified retrofitters, these Machine Tool Retrofit solutions revitalize mechanically sound machines with new controls, existing-control enhancements, and digital drive technology.

            “An aging, unreliable, or feature-limited CNC can increase the costs associated with machine maintenance and downtime,” explained Douglas Peterson, vice president, CNCs and lasers, GE Fanuc Automation. “By retrofitting a new state-of-the-art control to an existing machine, companies can breathe new life and enhanced productivity into an otherwise mechanically sound – and high value – machine. Fortunately, machine tool users have a tremendous opportunity to achieve productivity similar to new machine levels through quick, cost-effective retrofits.”

            Available now, GE Fanuc’s Machine Tool Retrofit solutions combine consultative expertise from a world leader in CNCs with state-of-the-art technology, fast implementation, and training. Retrofits from GE Fanuc offer machine tool users a multitude of benefits. New controls not only improve performance but also reduce mean time between failure with quicker access to spare parts. Additionally, the GE Fanuc retrofit brings improved communication capabilities through Ethernet-ready controls, allowing machine tool users to connect into manufacturing and business networks for greater access to data and improved decision making. New controls permit optional add-on features – giving machine tool users the ability to modify equipment as machining needs change.

            “As a result of a retrofit, end users can spend less time with setup, programming, and maintenance, and machine assets have greater uptime and output,” Peterson added. “A retrofit offers these immediate benefits and positions the machine tool user for long-term reliability and higher productivity.”

      With world-renowned CNC hardware, GE Fanuc also offers a suite of proven optimization capabilities for Machine Tool Retrofits such as...

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