OKUMA at a glance

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OKUMA at a glance

• OKUMA Corporation, based in Japan, is the worlds
  leading supplier of CNC lathes, machining
  centers, and grinders.
• OKUMA America is the Charlotte, NC, USA
  subsidiary responsible for sales, service, and
  engineering support for the Americas.
• 100 year history of machine tool design and
  manufacture.
• 40 year history of CNC hardware and software
  design and manufacture.
• Key provider of machine tool development
  platforms for OMAC-HMI API Users Group.

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OMAC Vision Revisited
De Facto Standard
Open
Off-the-shelf
Plug and Play
Modular
Easy Reconfiguration
Scaleable
Low Life Cycle Cost
Economical
Maximum Uptime
Minimal Downtime
Maintainable
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OKUMA OMAC-driven CNC strategy

• Introduced THiNC The Intelligent Numerical
  Control applying the OMAC vision to OKUMAs CNC
  products and future development roadmap.
• Enable encourage intelligent applications
  development for THiNC control.
• These applications can be developed by Okuma, 3rd
  Party providers, or End Users themselves.
• Maintain THiNC as a flexible, upgradeable
  hardware and software development platform.

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Platform Details

• Off the Shelf Industrial PC Motherboard
• Pentium M _at_ 1.6 GHz single processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 40 GB HDD
• Ethernet
• USB
• DVI video
• DeviceNet I/O
• Windows XP with RTOS
• APIs available for 3rd party software development

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OKUMA THiNC Tank Vision
With OMAC principles at the core, THiNC, the
fluid platform, will learn grow even after its
on the factory floor.
THiNCn
THINC
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Boeing-NIST-OKUMA Collaboration
Boeing/NIST implemented 787 Part Costing
application independent of Okuma using THiNC OPC
Server on MC-V4020 milling machine.