Various ways to take live signals from Machine for OEE Monitoring using CIMCO-MDC

In CNC Shop, idle time on machines can be up to 25 %. In fact, many CNC Shop Managers even do not know the exact idle time.These firms have bought few costly machines & these are idle for some reason or the other.

What does this mean in terms of production and profitability?

1. Your ROI is straightaway reduced by 25  %.
2. You are maybe producing 75 parts per shift when you could be producing 100.
3. You prices are about 25 % higher, in the cut-throat market out there.

Digitech offer a solution using CIMCO-MDC product. MDC is Manufacturing Data Collection. CIMCO is a Denmark based company. 

CIMCO MDC Max

This is the most advanced module of CIMCO-Denmark for measuring efficiency of a CNC machine in terms of OEE.  This module gives the on-line display of CNC status. The most important feature is that this gives a very true data collected from the CNC.

There are 7 different ways to capture the machine data as below - 

1)    Use  FOCAS interface in Fanuc : It directly gives data from CNC

                                               Memory but all FANUC systems do

                                               not Support this.

2)    Use   DPRNT Commands          : System puts DPRNT Command in each

                                                     Part Program. 

                                                     e.g. DPRNT [CYCLESTART]

                                                The Cycle Start Signal will be sent 

                                                on RS-232 port. But all FAUC do not 

                                                support DPRNT function.           

3)    Use  CIMCO MDC Box              : System can take 3 digital signals from 

                                                    machine via this hardware box on 

                                                    RS-232 port. Most common signals are

                                                    Cycle Start, Cycle Stop & Part Count  

4)    Use Spare Relays in Haas       : Haas has Relays like M21, M22 & M23.

                                                    These can be wired these to MDC box.

                                                    Further you need to use M codes in

                                                    NC Code to activate the relays.

5)    Use Relay Board & Tower Lamp : Take signals from a Tower

                                                Lamp & operate 3 relays. 
                                                Use NO contacts of these relays to take 
                                                signals to MDC box.

6)  Use MTConnect interface           : This is a universal protocol developed 

                                                     recently. Some latest CNC like Mazak,

                                                     OKUMA, FANUC, support  this.

                                                You can directly get Machine Status
                                                in MDC by this protocol.

7)    Use NetLINK for Sinumerik 840 : For Sinumerik 840-D,  NetLINK

                                                 hardware will give most of the MDC

                                                 signals.There is a direct interface in 
                                                 CIMCO-MDC software for NetLINK.

Down time can be scanned by Android cell phone or Tab. 

         

The live OEE will be shown on the Android cell phone. When a machine is under breakdown the system will send the SMS to predefined Cell Number. 

For more information, contact digitechpune@gmail.com

You can watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jehAgyrEjM