OSAI History
OSAI, a company specialising in numerical control since 1957 had started out within the machine tool division of Olivetti, and had gradually opened its activity to the international markets. Over time the group tied closer links with Allen Bradley/Rockwell, the American leader in industrial automation, until it became a part of the Rockwell Group and changed its name and logo into Rockwell. In 1997 OSAI split from Rockell and returned to being an independant company. OSAI Continued to build on the previous success, with steady growth over the next ten years. In 2007 OSAI was aquired by the major Italian electronics manufacturer PRIMA ELECTRONICS S.p.A. and has now become one of the major worldwide CNC and automation system providers.
A new start
OSAI, as an integral part of Prima Electronics, now has much greater resources available for R & D, product development and sales / marketing allowing us to build on the success already achieved. A key benefit is the reduced time needed to bring new products to market place, which gives us a big advantage in these very changable times we now live. The OSAI manufacturing operation continues to be based at our 6,000 sq.m. plant located in Barone Canavese, near Turin, which also hosts the sales and support services for the northwestern Italian area. Other branches are located in Milan, Padua and Bologna covering the remaining regions and serving customers and users of OSAI numerical control systems and automation products. The new organisation with Prima Electronics has 250 employees.
OSAI UK: part of the World-wide sales and support network:
- OSAI UK is a fully owned subsidiary based in Milton Keynes
- Offering sales and technical support for both machine builders and end users
- Locally held spares for all systems (both old and new) ensures a fast response for any service related problems.
- At OSAI UK we consider going the extra mile a standard service.
Innovative numerical control solutions
OSAI's success comes from a combination of high-tech products and a sales and support organisation which is fully skilled in the use of the most demanding applications. This results from its long history in the market, but also from the traditional attitude of its organisation, trained not only to react quickly to customer needs, but to anticipate market requirements.
OSAI's 10 Series CNC is a good practical example of such an attitude and strategy: it uses an "open platform, PC-based architecture", a generalised, common concept, adopted by all main CNC suppliers. However, this concept was totally unusual and challenging nearly ten years ago, when OSAI presented the 10 Series at the Hanover EMO exhibition in 1989.
Today the 10 Series has evolved into a "state of the art" CNC control complete with fully digital servo drives and market leading 5 axis control algorythms offering fast, precise, multiaxis interpolation.
Evolution, not revolution means that all of our CNC systems still support previous versions of hardware making the systems very future proof. Upgrading to a new CNC control does not have to involve a complete redesign.