CNC Professionals Ltd

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The goal of this product is to provide simple yet valuable information in a cost-effective manner. The system is an add-on module to any existing Multi-DNC system & uses the same RS232 cabling to retrieve data during RS232 'idle' time. By installing a PLC (4"x4"x6") with our custom PLC program into the CNC control & CNC Macro's, we can monitor various aspects of a machine tool. The PLC accepts 24v DC inputs, which can be directly connected to CNC controls. We have found that we can connect to the machine tool's I/O terminal strip to monitor such things as 'In-Cycle' or 'In-Alarm' & by the addition of a 3 position key switch we can also track 'In Setup', In Maintenance' & 'In Production' modes. The application designed for viewing the data retrieved by the Monitoring system can be run on any PC which has network access to the main Multi-DNC system. Data is presented in graphical, cumulative time, on/off or count & can be viewed between specified dates. Groups or single machines can be viewed as required & the data can be printed to any printer supported by the operating system.
Events can be configured to trigger an e-mail or a page to be sent which will alert you of process completion & an error condition.

Data is collected into a MS Access database & Multi-DNC includes some standard reports. Below is an example of our Production & Utilization reports.

Machine Production Report

 

 

The reports can be exported into a number of formats includeing PDF,RTF,DOC etc. Besides reports which mine the database we also display a snapshot view within Multi-DNC which gives an indication of the current status of a specific machine. The view below shows the current status of the selected machine.