Disclosed is a position controller for a tilting head in a machining center. The position controller includes an offset attachment having a body combined to the tilting head and a spherical contact secured to the body, an offset detector built in the machining center such that the offset detector move out into a process area of the machining center and automatically detects a tool offset from a contact point with the spherical contact, a storing unit individually storing first and second tool offsets by respective rotation positions of the tilting head, and an operator generating a transform offset of the first tool offset by a rotational transform and a center error vector from the transform offset and the second tool offset. Accordingly, the center error of the tilting head is automatically detected and corrected in the machining center.

Apparatus for the homing and subsequent positioning of the axes of a numerical control machine. The apparatus includes motion actuators operatively connected to a motor for moving a machine worktable of the apparatus, a control unit, an input/output unit operatively connected to the control unit for the definition of at least one working axis, at least one switching sensor, either of inductive or capacitive type, and at least one switching bar for the definition of at least one switching point identified on the at least one worktable using the at least one switching sensor. The switching sensors and switching points are fixed or mobile, and the at least one switching bar includes a detection area for the at least one switching sensor, the area being shared into a first detection section, a second detection section, and a plurality of protection and fastening areas. The apparatus also includes a sensor housing for the insertion, protection and sliding of one or more switching sensors.

An apparatus to assist a machinist in the setup of a remote computer controlled machine tool table has an X-axis electronic gauge block assembly, a Y-axis electronic gauge block assembly, and a Z-axis electronic gauge block assembly each positioned on the machine tool table, to respectively collect X-axis probe position values, Y-axis probe position values, and Z-axis probe position values. Environmental sensors collect environmental values. An electronics processing system establishes a raw X-axis probe position, a raw Y-axis probe position, and a raw Z-axis probe position. A wireless interface transmits the environmental values, the raw X-axis probe position value, the raw Y-axis probe position value, and the raw Z-axis probe position value to the remote computer and receives from the remote computer refined probe position values to assist the machinist in the setup of the machine tool table.