Workflows and recipes

enable standardised and traceable production operations

Autonomous compensation

ensures verified high production quality without operator intervention

Integration of legacy machines

increases productivity without high investments

AIMS Connect: Smart job management and production control

AIMS Connect offers tool manufacturers a job management solution that is easy and quick to implement to increase productivity and quality and reduce the cost per tool. By integrating the workstations and operations required for tool production, work instructions and traceable quality control and management, AIMS Connect increases machine utilisation, makes employees more effective and saves unnecessary costs.

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ANCA's latest smart manufacturing solution

Recognising your challenges and finding solutions.

INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

Significantly more productive working hours for your employees thanks to clear work instructions on mobile devices.

TACKLE LABOUR CHALLENGES

Increase the number of machines that can be operated by one operator without additional workload.

USER INDEPENDENT

Consistent and repeatable compensation controlled by AIMS to keep your tools in tolerance.

REDUCE COST PER TOOL

Increase machine utilisation, user-independent compensations and traceabale processes are the basis for effective tool production.

FASTER ONBOARDING

Onboard new employess or upskill your operators within hours.

ERROR-PROOF

Avoid human error by adhering to and controlling clearly defined processes.

AIMS Connect enables the integration of different machines and workstations and ensures reliable compliance with all process steps.

DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN EXISTING MACHINES

Ensures reliable manufacturing processes between existing ANCA and ZOLLER machines by supplying the tool grinders with the right program and precisely following all necessary steps, receiving measurement results and applying necessary compensation based on predetermined strategy.

CENTRALISED STORAGE OF ALL DATA

AIMS Server as a locally installed web application provides the basis for AIMS
Connect as well as for AIMS Automate. Integrate your ANCAs and ZOLLERs
to start your journey into digital manufacturing! Store all your tool files and recipes on your AIMS Server.

WORK GUIDANCE

AIMS Connect offers comprehensive work guidance and improves the efficiency and accuracy of production processes through step-by-step instructions. Completion messages and processes are displayed immediately, as are the next steps.

CLOSED-LOOP MEASUREMENTS

With AutoComp, AIMS Connect provides closed-loop quality assurance capabilities and ensures product quality and conformance by checking tools against specifications during the manufacturing process.

WORK REQUEST SCHEDULES

Based on individual process definitions (recipes), work requests are created using job orders and monitored and controlled by AIMS Server for traceable processes.

FACTORY MANAGEMENT

All assets, pallets and machines are managed centrally in AIMS Server. Pallets and assets are instantiated and clearly identifiable.

PROCESS DEFINITION

Processes that define and describe individual work steps are defined in recipes. All steps and criteria that a tool has to go through in its production can be stored here.

Your partner in ANCA

With over 40 years' experience delivering CNC grinders to customers around the world, ANCA carries a reputation for delivering solutions to meet market needs.

AIMS is the next evolution in cutting tool manufacture, connecting tool production processes to deliver productivity and quality gains that keep you one step ahead of the competition.

Whether deploying AIMS to a single process, or across an entire production line, ANCA will be your working partner - with Engineering, Applications and After-sales support located in ANCA facilities around the world.

AIMS Connect

Smart job management and production control