Okuma Controls

[ducati]

Going tomorrow to look at the latest LB series Okuma lathes. Any feedback about the new controls and machines would be appreciated.

Looking at a 6 footer with Y axis. All bells and whistles.

 

Thanks

[rboucher]

You will not go wrong with it.

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

you will love it, get IGF with it even if you dont plan to use it much because you get all the usertask options that way

[Tarheel]

"you will love it, get IGF with it even if you dont plan to use it much because you get all the usertask options that way"

 

I agree, it is windows based so very easy to work with. I wish all controls had this!

[Mick]

Okuma controls, imho, are amongest the nicest controls to use, especially the lathe controls.

 

At the last place I worked, we had four of them (two VMC.s and two Mills). Where I am now, we have one mill and one lathe (the reast of the machines are Moris, Toyodas and Deckels).

 

IGF isn't a necessity for User Task. But User Task is fantastic. Talk to Inhouse about their MPLMaster post for Okuma. Its great.

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

what I am saying is the price you pay for IGF gets you user tast 1 and 2 plus graphics, if you purchase user task 1 and 2 you are just a little cheaper then IGF but just get IGF its fast to use codes flawless and you can back plot automaticaly set your jis specs nose rads the whole nine yards!

[Mick]

Ah, I see what you're saying Rick

 

We dont spec our machines with IGF, mainly because the code out of IGF doesn't seem that efficient (though that is going back a few versions, and it probably has improved a lot)

 

I *really* like Okumas LAP cycles, and their threading cycles.

[ducati]

Is the advantage of IGF the ease of programming at the control vs having to use MasterCam offline? Or is IGF just an at the contol enhancement.Also, what if any would the advantages of ADMAC be vs MasterCam?

[chris m]

Okuma lathes ROCK; we have 11 of them and I'd buy another 11 today if they gave me the money. We have IGF in all of our E100L and U100L controls though I have never used it. I could never say enough good things about Okuma lathes; you won't be disappointed.

 

C

[T_MALENA]

ducati you should have mail

[Tarheel]

My thought is ADMAC is good, but no where near as suffisticated as MasterCam. ( no bells and whistles)

But it will let you program at the machine control or off-line if you have a copy of the software and a key (dongle).

Great Lathes, can't say enough.

[T_MALENA]

Art, are you good with Admac?

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

the IGF is the fastest, I gurantee you can not make code any faster then IGF!

 

but I wasnt really trying to push the IGF to program with just to get the usertask options and Shhhh dont tell your distributor but some times you even get a little extra memory

[Goldorak]

here we have 4 okuma lathe and 5 millings

 

one of the cadet is 15 years old and we never had a single problem with

 

and our mc-v4020 mill had moore than 100000h on meeter (he almost make a complete turn!!!)and 14 years

and the spindle have been rebuilt only last year

 

we dont had mcam lathes cuz the IGF is enough for us (no big production or complicated cycles)

 

IMHO okuma is da best on the market!!

 

but they are quite expensive!!

[CR]

4 okuma Lathes We Have LB15's and LC30's

4 okuma mills MC40H's and MC3VA's

 

We love the them

No major broke down issues

[Tarheel]

Yea Tim,

Its' not hard to learn and very user-friendly.

Just no bells or whitles like MasterCam.....

As for the Machines- I believe the Okumas are better than any lathe out there..My humble opinion.