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 #  Mikron 2 Compact Cutting System 

 

 

 







**Twice the speed. Half the price.**

That's what a potential distributor had to say about Aeronaut's Mikron 2 cutter after a lengthy evaluation. With two Cam-lock tool holders, a pen holder and Cyclops machine vision camera, the Mikron 2 is a remarkably powerful machine at a very reasonable price.

The Mikron 2 is an integrated cutting system with a vacuum table and base enclosing the vacuum pumps and optional air compressor. It's made in a range of common sizes which are as much at home in a design studio as a production cutting room.

 



 

 

 







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##  Top performance at an affordable price. 

 

 

 







The Mikron 2 is a two tool Cam-lock cutter which comes with a pen holder and a Cyclops machine vision camera… and a few tricks up its sleeve.

It's fast and durable enough to do multi-shift production work, and versatile, precise and quiet enough that it's an asset to any design studio, whether working with technical textiles or packaging.

With its Cyclops machine vision camera and Tangent's automatic recognition of registration marks (ARRM), the Mikron 2 is a great cutter for print to cut work.

The Mikron 2 can be fitted with one or two plunge tool axes so that the cutting blade can be quickly raised and lowered while the depth stop is down on the material being cut, improving speed and accuracy.

 



 

 







**Cam-Lock quick-change tooling system**

Supports rotary (pizza) blade holders (19mm, 28mm, 45mm), plunge and drag blades, creasing tools, and a Z-axis drill punch for ultimate flexibility.

Swap between blades, drill punches, and other tools in seconds for maximum safety and efficiency.

**Standard Cut Sizes**

The Mikron 2 is available in a range of cut widths from a lab-size cutter to a full 1830 (72").

- Mikron 2 30 - Cut area 810 x 860 (32 x 34”).
- Mikron 2 40 - Cut area 1140 x 1650 (44 x 65”).
- Mikron 2 50 - Cut area 1270 x 2590 (50 x 102”).
- Mikron 2 60 -Cut area 1630 x 2590 (60 x 102”).
- Mikron 2 70 -Cut area 1830 x 2590 (72 x 102”).

**Concentric Pen Adaptor for Accurate Marking**

Compatible with a wide range of markers (ballpoints, paint markers, etc.), enabling easy marker type changes without affecting seam allowances.

**Optional Higher Pressure Tool Axes**

For applications requiring extreme pressure, such as cutting and creasing thicker materials, tool axes can be made higher pressure. As with most Aeronaut cutters, tool pressure is software controlled.

 



 

 



**Small but Powerful**

If you don't need to cut wide materials and your patterns and nests are short, then the Mikron 2 will do everything you want.

**Future Proof**

The wide range of tools which can be fitted to the Mikron 2 make it able to handle a wide range of work from rigid materials to roll textiles.

**Long Service Life**

Engineered without compromise, the Mikron 2 is built to last, delivering reliable performance over decades.

**Superior Speed and Accuracy**

The compact size of the Mikron 2 means high acceleration and good speed, making light work of complex jobs.

**Very low maintenance**

The Mikron 2 is designed for low maintenance. The drive system is belt driven with no hard to replace and rapidly wearing gears to worry about.

**Compact and Quiet**

The compact footprint and integrated design makes the Mikron 2 as suitable for design studio use as high volume production.

 



 

 

 







 On the Mikron 2, there are two Cam-lock tool shafts which can fit any type of tool in the wide range.

Cam-lock tools can be changed by hand in a few seconds so you can fit the tools you need, when you need.

The Cam-lock tool range includes 18mm, 28mm and 45mm rotary blades, plunge, tangential or drag knives with various depth stops for normal and high friction materials, creasing and scoring tools in a wide range of profiles and drill-punch sizes from pin to over 25mm. Drill-punch inserts are easy to sharpen and exchange.

 



 

 



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 The Mikron 2 was originally designed with packaging and sign work in mind, to be an industrial strength agile and accurate machine without the heavy price tag of European machines. It's the perfect cutter for most packaging and digitally printed materials.

Fitted with an inkjet print head, the Mikron 2 is perfect for swatches where the print, punch and cut operations can be done without moving the substrate.

Because the Mikron 2 is small and versatile, it's also being used for technical college and design studios. It's a great machine for production and lab-scale medical work from custom-slings to bandages.

The Mikron 2 is big enough to fit a half hide so it works well in small upholstery and bag operations where a mix of leather, fabric and PVC is cut.

 



 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 







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The Mikron 2 was designed for packaging and is as home in the design office as in short run boxes where the cost difference between a Mikron 2 and the competition is enough to make a business profitable. For packaging work, the Mikron 2 uses a plunge knife, creasing tool and Cyclops camera for registration mark recognition.



 

 



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For custom, aftermarket and short run upholstery and trimming work, the Mikron 2 is a great performer. Fitted with an 18mm and 28mm rotary blade cutter or drag knife, the Mikron 2 can do the job. The Cyclops camera and an optional overhead SiliconEye camera make aligning and digitising patterns a quick and easy process.



 

 



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If your products are small and you use only narrow fabric, then you don't really need a long and wide cutting table. With a quiet integrated vacuum pump and optional air compressor, the Mikron 2 is a cheap to run and highly productive tool in your workroom.



 

 



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Aeronaut normally avoids work in the garment industry but the Mikron 2 can find a place in both technical garments where there are many one-off jobs with many detailed pieces to cut. And if you are working in fashion, the Mikron 2 has a place in the sample room or for cutting short runs.



 

 

 







   ##  Software, Nesting and Technology 

 

 

 







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Aeronaut's Tangent software is the key to reducing fabric waste and Tangent's powerful and user friendly cutter control is essential to increase production.



 

 



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Fast and efficient autonesting can pay for a cutting system in months if your fabric is expensive - and isn't waste fabric the most expensive fabric in your business?



 

 



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Aeronaut has developed rapid patterning software and CAD plugins to reduce the design to cut time down to a few minutes on complex patterns.



 

 







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Aeronaut's revolutionary SiliconEye machine vision software can accurately trace and digitise a table full of patterns in seconds.



 

 



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With Aeronaut's full-table or gantry mounted machine vision systems, aligning cut profiles to patterned fabric or digitally printed material is simple.



 

 



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Inkjet printing is the fastest way to do pattern numbers, markings and reference text on almost any fabric.



 

 

 







 Most of the benefits of automation are obvious, others less so.

- Automation will increase productivity without increasing staff numbers while at the same time reducing waste, mistakes and staff stress at busy times.
- If you don't want growth, automation can let you produce the same number of good quality products with fewer staff.
- Automation reduces your reliability on key workers and conventional skills while attracting another generation of workers who might be entirely happy with computers but less so pushing a pair of scissors.
- Automation adds value to a business since the IP, designs and patterns are all digitised and can be stored off-site.
- Cutting accurate patterns no longer depends on key workers. Aeronaut cutter are easy to operate so many people can run a cutter and saved jobs can be easily recut.
- Automation means you can do more markings and more markings means faster, more accurate and more reliable assembly. The cutting and marking process may take a while longer but the sewing, welding or bonding operations are much faster.

 



 

 



- Apart from the obvious reason that Aeronaut has some of the best people around in sales, design, software and support…
- Aeronaut cutters are legendarily reliable. We've got dozens of cutters over 20 years old which are still doing the same reliable job for their owners.
- The cost of ownership of an Aeronaut cutter is very low. Upgrades, spares and service are readily available even for 30 year old machines.
- Over a third of new machine orders are from customers who already own at least one Aeronaut cutter, something which applies across the board from NASA contractors to the boat cover maker down the road.
- Aeronaut's cutters are rationally designed machines. As one customer said, "if we'd bought another make of cutter, we'd have spent more on plastic covers than we did on our whole machine".
- Aeronaut cutters may be overbuilt, like a '70s Mercedes and there's a sense of security in knowing that your 3 metre wide cutter is also working somewhere else at 6 metres wide.
- If it's yellow, it doesn't break! 90% of components are made in-house on one of 5 CNC machines, most of which are German 5 axis machining centres. If we made it once, we can make it again.

 



 

 

 







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    15 years of great service... what is there to complain about?
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    Actually, your cutter can cut everything. We also use it for hard materials (Cordura, thick foams and polyethylene, etc.) rigs, bags and so on. For this just increase the pressure.
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    Advantages of the Aeronaut cutter are: 1. Accuracy and neatness of details is much more better. 2. Possibility to cut various materials and multilayers for some fabrics (with good airporosity). 3. More reliable work 24 hours per day 7 days a week.
    
     
    
     P.H.
    
    Recreational Products NSW
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    Aeronaut software is by far the best in the industry and was the swaying factor in our decision to buy an Aeronaut cutter.
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    All our Tensioned Fabric Structures are cut on the plotter we have never had accuracy issues. 18 years this year, more square meters than I’d care to think about and still going strong.
    
     
    
    N.M.
    
    Tension structures & shade sails
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    At that price? We can afford to buy two... (And they bought six.)
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    Buying a cutter from Aeronaut Automation has been one of the best decisions we have made in the last 10 years.
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    Buying an Aeronaut cutter has improved accuracy and reduced waste. Production time has been greatly improved.
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    I am impressed by our Aeronaut machine. It is absurd to make comparisons between Aeronaut and XxxXxxx product. If Aeronaut is a cutter then XxxXxxx is a toy.
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    I called five of your customers. You can't buy goodwill like that. You can expect our order this morning.
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    I don't know what we would do without it. I could not imagine going back to working in the old way.
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    I just cut some medium weight kevlar sails, I'm still impressed by the speed and accuracy the Aeronaut cutter runs. Very nice when I have to work on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
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    I just want to say, this week we have going hard, 20 hours a day for 5 straight days and the Aeronaut machine hasn't missed a beat. Just wanted to congratulate you on a fine piece of machinery.
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    I knew within five minutes of seeing an Aeronaut cutter that I was going to buy it.
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    I must admit the more I use your machine more I am in love with it. It's a wonderful machine.
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    I saw one of the new Aeronaut tables last week at XXXX Sails, a very smart set up. I can honestly say I don't know of anyone who has anything but praise for Aeronaut's installations here in the UK.
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    I'm impressed by Aeronaut's practical approach instead of the marketing approaches of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxx etc.
    
     
    
     T.G.
    
    Manufacturing Consultant UK
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    If you are looking for an endorsement for Aeronaut, mine would be 110% Yes!
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    If you were thinking of getting an Aeronaut cutting system, just do it!!… You won’t regret it!!!
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    In comparison with our old xxxxxx machine, cutting speed have increased (around 20-40%).
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    In my experience the Aeronaut is very good. It is simple and robust, and is able to be maintained with a limited skill set.
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    It is incredible what our Aeronaut cutter has allowed us to achieve in production and technical add-on to our business.
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    It was the Aeronaut software which was the clincher. The software was the best we saw anywhere.
    
     
    
     M.W.
    
     Automotive Upholstery
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    Many thanks and well done on a fantastic product.
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    Next time, I won't buy just one Aeronaut cutter, I'll buy two or three!
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    Our Aeronaut cutter has fully fulfilled my expectation to the letter. I can’t fault the machine.
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    Our Aeronaut cutter has tripled our business. It has made our company a lot more successful and life is easier.
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    Our Aeronaut cutter is a great bit of kit. I would recommend it to anyone.
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    Our Aeronaut cutter is the best thing we have ever bought.
    
     
    
     S.M.
    
    Truck Curtains Victoria.
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    Our Aeronaut cutter offers great advantages on smaller orders as well as the large ones due to fast and precise cutting of materials we use to create the final products.
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    It's reduced a day's cutting for four people down to 1.5 hours for just one.
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    Our Aeronaut cutter paid for itself three times over inside the first two years.
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    Our Aeronaut has done a phenomenal job... otherwise we would not be buying another.
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    Our cutter has cut hundreds of thousands of pieces and we've never had a breakdown.
    
     
    
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    Our cutter is an Aeronaut out of Australia and it has been my best purchase ever.
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    The Aeronaut cutter does more work than two and a half people, and it doesn't make mistakes. Based on that and the price, I can pay for it inside two years.
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    Our decision to invest in your product was like flying to moon for us but it has made a massive difference to our company.
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    The Aeronaut cutter has completely transformed our manufacturing process. The cut pieces just fall together under the welder.
    
     
    
     S.T.
    
    Tension membranes NZ.
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    The Aeronaut cutter is the best, most simple solution to the problem of wide format cutters that I have seen.
    
     
    
    P.A
    
    A CNC machine manufacturer
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    The best thing about our cutter... is that it has reduced stress in the factory. If we get a big order we know the machine will handle it, fast, and no mistakes.
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    The effort was well worth it as the new machine has revolutionised the way we do things here, and has been for the past few years.
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    The Elektron Quattro is ideally suited to high volumes as it's very accurate in minimising fabric waste.
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    The good thing about our Aeronaut machine is that it is so easy to operate that we have four workers who can use it.
    
     
    
     N.S.
    
    Carbon and Glass Fibre pre-preg
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    The quality of the machinery speaks for itself… it is more accurate than any other cutting table.
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    The reason we bought an Aeronaut cutter is that it looked simple and reliable, and I knew we could do any maintenance on it ourselves.
    
     
    
    D.M.
    
    Corrugated Packaging.
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    There is no doubt in my mind that the Aeronaut cutter is the best way to go when it comes to supplying pool blankets.
    
     
    
    S.B.
    
    Swimming pool covers
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    We are excited about the prospects and the future. Aeronaut's table is true work-horse and is out performing any other table on the market.
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    We are happy with the product and your team is responsive and your are providing a good support. For these reasons I would like to ask you if you would be interested in working with us on a much larger scale project.
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    We are only as successful as our suppliers and supporters allow us to be, and we view Aeronaut as an integral part of our success.
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    We are very happy with our new cutter, you made a very good job. Thanks. When you have clients, who are interest for the Aeronaut cutter, its no problem so send the guys to us. We can show them, no problem
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    We can unpick a product, lay it flat on the table and trace it with SiliconEye so what might have taken days to design, draw and make up, might be finished in just hours.
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    We cut 2,000 to 3,500 metres each week with 30% less waste than our competitors.
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    We have achieved an 80% reduction in the labour to mark and cut. It takes 2 minutes to mark and cut everything. Previously, that would have taken over 10 minutes.
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    We have just cut 36 bags with our new laser at nearly 2 bags per minute. That's a saving of over three days a year on this product alone compared with the old method.
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    We love our Aeronaut cutter! It's the best machine we've got.
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    We love this machine... it just goes and goes.
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    We've had our Aeronaut cutter two years now and it's going like a train. If anyone wants to know, they can call me.
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    Why wouldn't I promote Aeronaut at every opportunity? Our cutter has been the best technical investment we ever made!
    
     
    
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    With an Aeronaut cutter, production is up 30% on our most optimistic estimates. and that is after using two types of competitive machine.
    
     
    
     R.B.
    
    Corrugated Packaging
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    With the Aeronaut cutter performing three times faster than hand cutting, the company had to put on two extra full-time machinists, as well as one casual, to keep up.
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    Aussie Bills has been using the Aeronaut for about 9 years. We have found the drive system to be very reliable with low maintenance required.
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    With the Aeronaut cutter performing three times faster than hand cutting, the company had to put on two extra full-time machinists, as well as one casual, to keep up
 
 

 

 



 

 

 







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