C-Series – C.R. Onsrud – American Made Industrial CNC Machines (2024)

C-AXIS

With a C-Axis (aka 4th axis), you can machine at an angle, including on the sides of your material, to create complex contours (such as helixes), otherwise not possible with a 3-axis machine. This comes standard on a 5-axis machine.

Bursts of air keep tools cool and remove debris and chips from the cut without the need for coolant.

Primarily used for metals, Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) dispenses only the amount of lubricant needed for your specific operation to keep tools cool and improve cut quality.

Based on the direction of your cuts when machining complex geometries, directional air blast targets air to remove debris and cool your tools.

Cold air blast removes chips and cools the tool when cutting metals or various abrasive materials.

Precisely measures the length of your tool and automatically feeds that value into your CNC machine controls.

Precisely measures the length and diameter of your tool and automatically feeds that value into your CNC machine controls. It also detects if a tool is broken.

Precisely measures the length and diameter of your tool, without contact, and automatically feeds that value into your CNC machine controls. It also detects if a tool is broken. NC4 is application dependent; table constraints may apply.

Automatically greases your tools, bearings, and ball screws at regular intervals.

Drip pans (a.k.a. trays) catch excess lubrication that might otherwise cause contamination or other hazards.

With CR Onsrud’s innovated servo-positioned dust hood, we have improved upon the standard 2-position dust hood and given the CNC the ability to automatically adjusts the dust hood’s height offset based on tool length, relative to the workpiece. This helps customers who machine with a variety of tool length get superior dust collection regardless of the tool length.

Designed for low ceilings and shop floors with layout constraints, a dust collection stanchion kit transitions dust to your collector from either side of the machine.

Engineered especially for fine or coarse chips (e.g., hard composites, fiber cement, metal, etc.), programmable air knives clear harmful debris from your linear guides.

Partial standalone enclosures provide additional safety when the back of a machine is not against a wall.

A fully enclosed machine contains debris, reduces noise levels, protects your electronics and mechanical drives from both wet and dry machining, and safely isolates the operator from the machining zone and airborne particles.

These doors are manually controlled by you for access to the machine’s enclosure. For safety purposes, the doors should be closed when the machine is in operation.

These doors are activated and controlled by PMC servo motors. For safety purposes, the machine is placed in a feed hold state if the doors are not properly closed.

These doors are activated and controlled by PMC servo motors and raise upward as opposed to opening to the sides of the machine. For safety purposes, the machine is placed in a feed hold state if the doors are not properly closed.

Dust collection ports are integrated with your vacuum system to move dust and debris away from the work area.

With the partition in place, the machine is split into two separate zones, so you can safely load/unload parts in the unused zone. Pivot the partition against the wall and the machine resumes operation across the entire table.

The Onsrud lidar safety curtain sets an invisible barrier that triggers your machine’s E-Stop when crossed.

Safety mats sense the pressure of an operator or object on them, alerting the machine to turn off.

This auxiliary equipment can create and affix labels to parts for tracking and identifying parts for use in downstream operations or at the job site.

Scan a barcode (machine-readable data) from a document and the machine automatically retrieves the specified program, tooling list, and set-up directions for that job.

Devices are strategically incorporated into your production to automatically perform repetitive tasks, so you and your team can focus on projects that grow your business.

Rapidly drills 4 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

Rapidly drills 9 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

Rapidly drills 13 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

Rapidly drills 14 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

Rapidly drills 18 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

Rapidly drills 24 holes, simultaneously, evenly spaced with the same or varying diameters.

At a fixed position, an aggregate ring always maintains your tools centered and at a consistent depth into the material you’re cutting.

A 90° head gives you the capability to perform lateral machining operations on a 3-axis machine.

A Duo 90° head gives you the capability to perform lateral machining operations using different tools in opposite directions on a 3-axis machine.

With a Quad 90° head, you’ll easily add lateral machining operations to your 3-axis machine using four tools in each direction.

An adjustable angle head allows you to set the angle at which you want to cut, for up to 5-sided machining on a 3-axis machine.

With a flex angle head, you can perform horizontal and angular machining operations on a 3-axis machine without having to reposition your workpiece.

Mill, plane, carve, and bevel, symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes on a 3-axis machine, with the addition of a moulder head aggregate.

Cut out sharp corners and radii from flexible materials, such as packaging foam, tool foam, plastic, or cardboard with an oscillating knife aggregate.

With a dedicated aggregate station, you can automatically store and retrieve specialty tools (such as saw blades) that are too large or heavy to fit in a standard automatic tool changer.

With custom vacuum zones, you tailor the size and location of vacuum areas for part-holding and can shut off sections of the table to concentrate vacuum to specific zones.

The Onsrud grid table provides a grid pattern for multiple part-holding options, such as gasketing, vacuum pods, clamps, etc. and is compatible with most third-party products.

Custom fixturing is adapted to hold irregularly shaped parts or panels that cannot be held by traditional methods.

The channels of T-Slot tables are used for linear positioning of clamps and vices across the surface of the machine’s table.

With a rotary axis lathe or chuck, your machine operates as a turning center with live tuning. It rotates bar stock and long and skinny components to create chair legs, columns, etc.

Reference pins are for quick, reliable, and repeatable placement of your workpieces on your CNC machine.

A surface probe or part finder helps your machine accurately identify the position of your material on your worktable.

A part-probing system adjusts the origin of your part prior to machining, performs in-process QC for tight tolerance applications, and performs post-machining QC to approve or reject a part before it is taken out of its work holding.

Quickly restart (resume) paused programs and prepare (ready) the machine to start immediately after a process is complete.