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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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? 

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

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

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

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.