Gibbs and MAG Infimatic Controls Partner

By DE Editors

In conjunction with the MAG Infimatic Controls Division (Sterling Heights, MI), Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA) announced a worldwide strategic partnership, a large part of which is Infimatic offering Gibbs Shop Floor Programming (SFP) with the new line of MAG Infimatic open architecture, PC-based controls.

The announcement, made at the EMO tradeshow recently held inHannover , Germany , which was the site of the European introduction of the new CNC controls with Gibbs SFP. The new MAG Infimatic CNC NC200 controller line was demonstrated running the sample parts programmed with Gibbs SFP.

Gibbs SFP was demonstrated both on free-standing Infimatic controls and also on a MAG Fadal VMC 4020 FX and a MAG Fadal VMC 2216 FX machine tools, which were controlled by MAG Infimatic controllers. MAG Fadal is the first machine builder to adopt the new Infimatic controllers. Infimatic is working to also provide the controls for other MAG divisions as well as other independent machinery builders.

Able to support programming wire frame geometry, the Gibbs SFP version bundled with the Infimatic controller can be upgraded to support programming of more complex parts including surface and solid models.

For more information, go to GibbsCAM and Gibbs SFP.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.