Manufacturing Software
Along with the MDC-Max data collection package, Cimco offers a part program database, NC-Base, that Romanowski said is its most popular product. “Our DNC and the Edit soft- ware are very widely used, but for higher-end database type products, NC-Base is very popular. It’s an easy-to-manage database. It’s part-program centric, and it will track all the revisions for a customer that a part program goes through, while letting you associate other documentation with the part program. And of course, it has security so you can do read- only access on the shop floor.”
Having the right part program at the right time cuts down on errors and improves quality, she added. “What’s always been a big driving factor for us and those systems is to elimi- nate errors. When we go in, a lot of times the data isn’t orga- nized very well. It’s fairly common for somebody to go grab a file and in it is an old print, or it’s an old NC program they find on some drive somewhere—they run that and it ends up not being the current version or the most accurate version. We’re
trying to prevent that with our software for our customers, by reducing scrap and mistakes, and getting the data to the people who need it more quickly and efficiently.”
Sharing Data through Shop Kiosks
As access to shop-floor data proliferates through hand- held devices, customers are also looking to push that data out onto the shop floor to reach a wider audience. After introducing its iVet app for iPhone and iPad at IMTS 2012, ERP software developer Henning Industrial Software (Hud- son, OH) has added the Visual EstiTrack Shop Kiosk for dis- playing ERP information more freely on large LCD monitors on the shop floor, noted Rich Henning, president, Henning Industrial Software. “We’re seeing more people who want to share key performance data with their staff to provide timely feedback on how well they’re doing,” Henning said. “Traditionally this type of information sharing has been through posting
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