Process Improvement


can look at these data to find bottlenecks in your process—any- thing that is green is productive time, and anything other than that, yellow or red, it’s all downtime, which is waste.” OEE gives manufacturers a lot of data on factors includ-


With TechSolve’s MTConnect-compliant, Web-based ShopViz application, small to medium-sized shops can easily moni- tor machine tool assets anywhere using a simple browser.


Production workers on the floor are likely more interested in part-production data, for example, if a tool is running out and they need a new one from the toolcrib in time, he added. “These are also part and parcel of process improvement. You


ing quality, showing good parts and bad parts, noted Neil Desrosiers, application engineer/developer, Mazak Corp. (Florence, KY), who also serves as chairperson for MTCon- nect Institute’s Machine Tool Workgroup. “Anyone who’s not measuring their factory today, they implement the low-hanging fruit,” Desrosiers said. “You usually see a 10% improvement and then after that you start seeing targeted improvements. It’s surprising to me how many people are not using machine tool monitoring.”


A longtime supporter of MTConnect, Mazak has included MTConnect compliance on both its machine tools and Mazatrol CNC controls, supporting the current third release of MTConnect v1.2 including mobile assets in the manufacturing process that can be associated with multiple devices in the


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