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BAYHA GmbH is located in the attractive small town of Mark-
gröningen near Stuttgart. This family-owned Swabian company
specializes in the production of bespoke, ready-to-assemble
CNC components and complete sub-assemblies. Over the last
20 years, through quality and schedule effectiveness, BAYHA
has built itself a good market position. To maintain and further
extend this position, the production processes are being opti-
mized continuously – in 2015 for example, it invested in an in-
novative ZOLLER presetter. “Previously, we were using a tool
presetter with dial gage. But it was simply not precise enough,
and it was too time-consuming“, said Ju-
nior Boss Benedikt Bayha as he explained
the decision to upgrade their tool man-
agement systems. At the AMB 2014 in
Stuttgart, which he attended with his
father, ‚Senior Boss‘ Ulrich Bayha, he
gained an overview of the equipment
available on the market. As well as mea-
surement of the X and Z axes, they were
particularly interested in being able to
transmit data to the machine. “With the
last of these requirements no-one ex-
cept ZOLLER offered this in their en-
try-level models“, stated Ulrich Bayha:
“Since we use Hermle and hyperMill, we
did not want to have a standalone solution.
Instead, we wanted a product that could
be integrated seamlessly in our systems
environment, and that had all interfaces
on board as well.“ Finally, a decision was taken in favor of
»smile / pilot 2.0« from ZOLLER – this entry-level model for pro-
fessional tool measurement rapidly established itself as a
genuine efficiency booster for production operations: This was
because, through the transmission of the complete set of tool
data records to the machine, operations are not only a great
deal faster, they are also more reliable than back in the days of
dial gages and manual transfer of data. Today, program and tool
data are simply transmitted from the server to the machine –
and in no time at all, chips are flying!
SMALL SOLUTION, BIG IMPACT
Resource-intensive data input is now a thing of the past,
thanks to »smile / pilot 2.0« – now the tools are set up
effortlessly, and they are set up professionally. This in-
cludes controller-compliant data transmission to
the machine.
e.g. BAYHA GmbH:
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