The constant development of the CNC 8055 system by Fagor Automation, shown at the recent BIEMH 2006 Spanish machine tool show in Bilbao, is aimed at making machine work easier for the operator and helping to increase productivity in sectors requiring a robust and versatile CNC system. It has two programming languages, Fagor Conversational, specially designed for ‘one-off’ part machining and the ISO programming language, more suitable for batch machining. The main innovations in the Fagor CNC 8055 are: dark grey keyboard; USB connector for Pen-drive (flash memory); solid state disk up to 2GB - replacing the current 24MB MemKeyCard - for the part programs magazine and ‘Explorer’ type access to the part programs.

It also includes improvements in the machining process, in the Profile editor, in the search for blocks, as well as in the manual replacement and inspection of tools.

The new part and hole centring cycles, with a feeler in the milling machine models and ‘Y’ axis machining in the lathe models, are some of the new features these models include.