Heidenhain to ‘empower manufacturing’ at EMO
Posted on 02 Sep 2025. Edited by: John Hunter. Read 909 times.
Heidenhain, a leading developer and manufacturer of position encoders, digital readouts, touch probes and TNC/CNC numerical controls, will be showcasing intelligent and innovative solutions and enhancements to its products at
EMO Hannover 2025 to ‘empower manufacturing’ at the show which takes place 22-26 September (Stand F45, Hall 6).
The Heidenhain Group, which also includes group companies AMO, ETEL, NUMERIK JENA and RSF, is a competent system provider for controls, encoders, touch probes, vision systems, software and other solutions that ensure high accuracy, reliability and performance in innovative industries such as machine tools, electronics manufacturing, robotics, medical tech, elevators and metrology.
Heidenhain is expanding its family of TNC7 controls to include new functions and a new CNC control designed for legacy machine upgrades and vocational-training machines. The 19 and 24in variants of the TNC7 can now perform cylindrical grinding and contour shaping, enabling complete machining along with exceptional dimensional accuracy, contour fidelity and surface quality. TNC7 users will have milling, turning and grinding capabilities at their fingertips without rechucking the workpiece. The TNC7 and TNC7 basic also feature new capabilities for cylinder surface machining. Furthermore, new functions for graphical programming and simulation are further simplifying the intuitive usability of TNC7 controls through enhanced user guidance and new analysis capabilities.
At EMO the ‘TNC7 go’ control will be bringing the groundbreaking user-friendliness of the TNC7 family to vocational-training contexts and legacy machine upgrades. A particular highlight is the new ‘Graphical positioning’ function. Instead of writing an NC program, users can draw the desired contour or hole pattern directly on the touchscreen. Position approach motion is handled by the control. As a straight-cut control that can manage analogue axes, the TNC7 go is the next-generation successor to the Heidenhain TNC 128 control.
Globabl premier
In a global premier, visitors will get to see the Heidenhain programming system, a PC software solution for creating NC programs executable by Heideinain controls. With its feature-based programming functionality, the system offers a completely new ability to extract the full geometric description of individual elements, including contours and depths, from the CAD data of a 3-D model.
This geometric description is enhanced with milling strategies before being used to automatically create a Klartext program. Programs automatically generated in this manner can also be converted by the Klartext Converter, allowing them to be executed on Heidenhain controls that predate the TNC7 and its required software options. The programming system also supports new simulation functions such as rewind and fast-forward capabilities, a simulation log for easily validating generated programs, and a new manager function for digital twins. The familiar functions of the Heidenhain programming station remain available.
Heidenhain will also be showcasing the new version 1.6 of its Visual Tool Check software for the VT 122 measuring camera, a modern, high-tech industrial camera used for tool inspection and measurement in CNC machining. Visual Tool Check now offers AI-based wear measurement that fully automates the current manual measurement process, thereby enabling faster process documentation. Industries such as aerospace and medical tech will especially benefit from this enhancement. As a combined system, the VT 122 camera and Visual Tool Check software can save time during holistic tool monitoring while providing the machine-tool user with reliable tool-condition data.