Efficient Shop Floors This robust interconnectivity leads to a much more efficient shop floor, increasing spindle uptime and keeping tooling cost at a bare minimum. Having perfect tool assemblies created from existing components not only eliminates time waste but can greatly improve physical waste as well in terms of test cuts and scrapped parts.
What is a connected factory and why do you want it?
Data permeates throughout every process in your facility and the difficulty is harnessing it, understanding it, and knowing how to use it. This may seem like a daunting task but the real question is, where do you start? The first step is to tackle the low hanging fruit: your tooling and its influence on uptime. How do you track your tooling? Where is this data kept? How do you utilize it? In most factories this data is scattered in different locations: the cam department, your
CNC machine control, the tool crib, and possibly spreadsheets or a tool management system. The tool presetter touches all these different departments and is the perfect hub to control all this data. The presetter can not only be the dashboard to manage all the data from these departments but utilizing full 2-way communication via universal protocols like MT Connect the presetter can feed data back to all departments closing the data loop.
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