Visit Animatics at booth #125 at the Pacific Coast Machine Tool Expo

Animatics’ Mini-Mill

Small machine, incredibly low price - same great part!  If you are running small parts on big machines, you’re wasting money and opportunity.  For the price of a manual knee-mill, you can have a full 3-Axis CNC with a 15” x 9” x 13” work envelope.  Heavy, powerful, fast and rigid, this small CNC is a production workhorse, but also an excellent choice for educational applications and even a home shop.  Lease it for about the monthly cost of cable-TV, turn a profit day-one and own it in five years.

The Animatics Mini-Mill is the ONLY Mini-Mill to solve the biggest problem faced by users: what to do if the control fails.  All other mini-mills use proprietary controls that are not user-serviceable, and worse, rely too heavily on the operating PC where a PC failure is a machine failure causing down-time and broken delivery promises.  Using Animatics new ServoStep, closed-loop brushless motor with fully integrated controls, concentrates all of the complexity into a single component that you can swap out with a screw driver in about five minutes.  More importantly, virtually any PC with a USB port will run the Mini-Mill without any special hardware.

SmartMotor Solution

Like the Mini-Mill, competitive machines may last for decades. Unlike the Mini-Mill, competitive machine controls will not. The Mini-Mill features the integrated ServoStep^TM motor from Animatics, a true closed loop commutated brushless motor that liberates you from a complicated, proprietary cabinet full of controls.

Compact

When floor space is tight, the Mini-Mill can fit perfectly in the space of a small closet. Whether for hobbyists’ garages or tool sheds, educational classrooms or additions to fully functional machine shops, the Mini-Mill’s small footprint ensures a high functionality to space ratio. Just send in a ServoStep for repair if it is damaged, or keep a spare to ensure zero down time.

Low Cost

Running one-time jobs on big machines is not only inefficient, it can interfere with machine shop schedules and cost you profits. With the Animatics Mini-Mill, one-time unique jobs can be milled without waiting for long run projects to finish. The Mini-Mill is also ideal for entrepreneurial businesses where keeping cost of capital low is a necessity for survival. Small parts machining has never been so economical.

Flexibility in Communication

Animatics’ Mini-Mill can use virtually any PC that contains a USB port. Others merge controls with the PC so when the PC dies, so do their machines. Because the Mini-Mill’s control system is exterior to the rest of the machine, the entire control system can be easily replaced by the user.

Pacific Coast Machine Tool Expo is the only regional event in Northern California for the machine tool and manufacturing industries. This event features free educational sessions and an exhibit floor showcasing the latest products and services in the industry. Don’t miss the opportunity to see what’s current in the industry, find products that will improve cost efficiency and network with your peers.