5 things you need to know from Rollomatic

1. The Rollomatic Group based in Switzerland is recognized as the leader in CNC grinding technology for the orthopedic industry

The Rollomatic Group is a private Swiss company specializing in the design and manufacturing of high-precision 6-axis CNC grinding machines for production grinding of orthopedic cutting tools in stainless steel or HSS. We’re customer-oriented, providing complete manufacturing solutions for the grinding of precision cutting tools and parts, including wheel dressing and measuring finished parts. Thirty years ago we shipped CNC grinding machines into the North American medical industry for bone drills and burs. As a result, we’ve been fortunate to collect a vast amount of experience in grinding surgical cutting instruments.

2. Experience in grinding stainless steel including wheel technology, wheel dressing, wheel balancing

We have a team of applications engineers who grind orthopedic cutting tools every day in search of ways to improve existing processes or to validate customers’ tools. We can quote and recommend an entire turnkey project including coolant, filtration, chilling equipment, wheel dressing, balancing, and measuring instruments.

3. Strausak ONE for long drills in the robotic surgery industry

Strausak is a member of the Rollomatic Group and offers solutions for extra-long drills and reamers for the orthopedic industry. Strausak builds a 5-axis flexible tool & cutter grinding machine with Numroto tool design software. This model has been designed so any options can be upgraded and retrofitted any time during the life of the machine. Tool support and tailstock systems are available to accommodate extra-long parts.

4. Robotic solutions for the Smart Factory concept

Rollomatic has launched an Omron automatically guided vehicle with a robotic handling system and a Kawada humanoid industrial robot. The design of these handling systems is in line with increasing demands for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the Smart Factory. The Omron mobile robot allows the automatic transportation of tool cassettes between different machines and eventual delivery to post-grinding stations, such as measuring, laser marking, cleaning, packaging, labeling, and more. The Kawada humanoid robot autonomously performs tasks such as cassette loading, pre- or post-grinding tool inspection, laser marking, cleaning, placing finished products into packaging tubes, and affixing labels to the tubes.

5. Pinch-and-peel grinding of surgical instruments; grinding features on the quick-disconnect grips

Quick disconnect features on the shank-end of orthopedic cutting instruments provide a fast and easy connection and disconnection to the motor-driven handpiece. Rollomatic builds a pinch-and-peel grinding machine that grinds the grip features at the back of an orthopedic cutting tool. Grinding is often necessary when the tolerances of the grip details can’t be achieved by conventional machining methods such as Swiss-machining or milling. Blanks for orthopedic cutting tools that can’t be machined by traditional methods can be produced on this pinch-and-peel grinding machine.

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