D’ANDREA – TA-TRONIC Boring and Facing Heads

D’Andrea, headquartered in Lainate, Italy, is a world leader in the manufacture of high precision machine tool accessories. Known worldwide for the quality of its products, D’Andrea has been developing increasingly effective technologies since 1951, keeping pace with the modern demands of the precision engineering industry.

D’Andrea – TA-Tronic is head with automatic balancing for numerical control boring and facing, which can be applied manually, automatically, and with palletized systems on boring machines, machining centers, and special machinery. Connection with the machine tool spindle occurs through a cone for the rotation of the rotating head and a flange for fastening the fixed body on to the fixed part of the machine. For lighter tasks, a simple anti-rotation pin may be used. Two possibilities are available for the control unit of D’Andrea – TA-Tronic head:

The first one involves a direct connection to the “U” axis of the NC in the machine tool which allows for boring, inner facing, outer facing, back–facing, grooving, phonographic grooves, threading and taper boring, taper and variable boring, concave and convex corner rounding through interpolation with the other axis.
The second with a simple and economical U-Control positioner with a wireless remote-control. The positioner can be connected to the M functions of the machine to receive start signals of the various operations programmed on the remote-control. This solution allows for boring machining, inner facing, outer facing, back-facing, inner and outer turning operations, grooves, phonographic grooves, threading, and taper boring. Spherical machining is not possible with machines equipped with the U-Control wireless kit.