ANCA Pty Ltd is an Australia company which designs and manufactures CNC grinding machines

Tool and Cutter grinder

A tool and cutter grinder is used to sharpen milling cutters and tool bits along with a host of other cutting tools.It is an extremely versatile machine used to perform a variety of grinding operations: surface, cylindrical, or complex shapes...

. The company was founded in 1974 by Pat Boland and Pat McCluskey in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Australia

Australia

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ANCA has its headquarters

Headquarters

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 and main manufacturing plant in Melbourne where it employs about 230 people (2006). Since 2006 two additional plants have been opened in Thailand and Taiwan. The company is export-oriented and has expanded its operations by opening sales offices in nine other countries (2006 data) throughout America

Americas

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, Europe

Europe

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 and Asia

Asia

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. It is considered a leader in its field of high-end precision griders that are used in many industries including aeronautics and the automotive production and has claimed to be the No. 1 supplier of CNC machines in China, Britain and the US.

The company produces a range of computer numerical control (CNC) tool and cutter grinders to meet large-scale manufacturing and entry-level production requirements. The company also produces medical and dental drill

Dental drill

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ANCA has exported approximately 2500 machines worth around $900m (AUD), and was named Australian Exporter of the Year in 1999. The company is also the world’s leading manufacturer of CNC Tool and Cutter Grinders. Its new subsidiary, ANCA Motion, is supplying computer controls to other Australian manufacturers and exporting to China and Taiwan.

Products and services

ANCA designs and manufactures its own machines. Machines produced include:

• CNC grinding machines
• CNC tool and cutting machines
• CNC sharpening machines
• CNC tap manufacturing machines
• CNC specialist stick-blade grinding machines

ANCA also design and product software and offer refurbishment services.

Applications

ANCA CNC machines are commonly used for the following applications:

• Aerospace
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• Cutting tools
• Medical
• Woodworking

Innovation and Awards

Examples of innovation quoted by ANCA include:

• first to design and manufacture an Australian CNC
• first to introduce a probe for digitising tools in a CNC tool and cutter grinder
• first to introduce a modem for support and diagnostics in a CNC tool and cutter grinder
• first to introduce soft axes for significantly simplified programming of a CNC tool and cutter grinder
• first to introduce MPG Feed for safe debugging and testing
• first to introduce Windows-style graphical users interface and real-time operating systems in a CNC tool and cutter grinder
• first to introduce a CNC tool and cutter grinder with all rotary and linear axes being directly driven
• first to introduce industry-standard statistical process control (SPC) in a CNC tool and cutter grinder
• first to introduce iBurr software for burr grinding (which uses an active graphical user interface)
• first to introduce full- and true-3D simulation of the grinding process, CIM3D (patented in Australia and the United States).

ANCA has won over 25 industry awards in recognition of its engineering excellence and export achievements. Major awards as follows:

• Australian Exporter of the Year, 1999
• Victorian Exporter of the Year Award, 2006
• Institution of Engineers Australia - Engineering Excellence Award - 2001
• Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame

Clients

Major clients as follows:

• Boeing
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• Rolls-Royce
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• British Aerospace
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• Xerox
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• Mercedes Benz

External links

• ANCA Pty Ltd - Official website.
• ANCA Motion Pty Ltd - Official website.
• Case Study JETRO Australia