CNC Milling machines are an integral part of high-end production of doors, external decorations, internal decorations and wood cutting products; the right equipment is very important to continuous operations. The electric motors that power the precision movement are critical to the quality cuts being made.

http://www.KelingInc.Net technology is a provider of a knowledgebase supported by years of experience with stepper motors, it’s important to understand their function and support of the very important role they play in the operation of precision wood cutting.

Some basic operation knowledge is - Stepper motors operate differently from DC brush motors, which rotate when voltage is applied to their terminals. Stepper motors, on the other hand, effectively have multiple "toothed" electromagnets arranged around a central gear-shaped piece of iron. The electromagnets are energized by an external control circuit, such as a microcontroller.

To make the motor shaft turn, first one electromagnet is given power, which makes the gear's teeth magnetically attracted to the electromagnet's teeth. When the gear's teeth are thus aligned to the first electromagnet, they are slightly offset from the next electromagnet. So when the next electromagnet is turned on and the first is turned off, the gear rotates slightly to align with the next one, and from there the process is repeated. Each of those slight rotations is called a "step", with an integer number of steps making a full rotation. In that way, the motor can be turned by a precise angle.

Stepper Motors are designed for this type of precision cutting.  They are also manufactured for long continuous use in high production lines.

Milling machine manufactures are in need of Stepper motor components that meet complex specification depending on the other components of the router. The technology behind the success of these machines has been under development for a long time, but stills has room for much improvement, 3-D real-time viewing is one of the ways the industry is heading, allowing the operator to view the cuts as their being performed, also to allow the operator to edit the router parameters at this level.

There is a lot of room for growth here, the complexity the of cut, a high volume production setting require well trained operators, keeping people skills in this kind of work is very important and can be costly, but as demand around the world increases due to globalization, the vocational schooling industry will grow quite rapidly.

The industry growth from all of this will be in the CNC spindle, CNC software, block and rail just to name a few. And this will feed the other industries as well, this type of growth is what this country need to get going again. Quality wood working will be with us forever and is tied to the housing industry, which will arise again, history tells us so.

Companies would be wise to invest in their human capitol and start training people to run high volume complex CNC Milling Machines as this type of learning is time consuming and needs a certain amount of experience.