Servo-smooth stepper motion enhances dental milling machine

Digital Dental Lab’s dental mill features modular controls, servo-smooth stepper motion, and remote maintenance. It includes an open CNC kernel that allows a customized and simplified machine interface that dentists who are not machinists can operate.

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