there’s nothing that we need to do except plug in your network cable to your machine and you’re up and running. The ability to do a pilot is much easier to do on a cloud- based system, and there are no term contracts. So you can do it month-to-month, or you can do it for six months, there’s no long-term commitment. If you have two ma- chines in your shop and you want to try it for a month, you give us $90 and we’ll hook up your machine. ME: What’s new with Predator’s solutions for tracking and analyzing shop-floor data? Mercurio: Predator is an applica- tion base, and works on the customer's servers, databases and company network. It’s our approach that not every customer is ready for the cloud. Maybe an application is best, and you can afford it. Other people may want to approach it cloud-based and try before they buy.
With new machines coming out with multiaxis machining capability and au- tomation, Predator’s new CNC Service is a new way to interface with these types of equipment. Before there was a lot of hardware involved, but Predator’s embracing new technology, such as MTConnect and FANUC FOCAS, which are protocols that allow you to di- rectly connect to the machine. There’s technology that allows us to directly track the control—to know exactly what program it’s running, what the feed rate is, what error codes are triggered in the machine, so you can see in real-time what’s happening on the machine. ME: How does a shop-floor manage- ment system differ from ERP or MRP systems?
Mercurio: There is a distinction. People get this confused because when they see the term shop-floor manage- ment, they think of business systems,
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