Managing Data More Effectively Shop-fl oor management software developer
Cimco Americas LLC (Streamwood, IL) offers a suite of data management and collection tools including its MySQL-based MDC-Max, a manufacturing data col- lection package for real-time monitoring and analysis of shop-fl oor productivity. The North American unit of Cimco A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark), Cimco Americas also has CNC-Calc, a basic CAD/CAM program for the shop fl oor, plus other applications including Edit 7, DNC-Max 7 (distributed NC) software for com- munication of CNC programs, and a Product Data Management (PDM) package for managing, control- ling and securely storing all production-related data. Cimco’s database products come standard with MySQL, an open-source SQL database—unless users want to upgrade to the full SQL versions, which re- quire a license. “MySQL is a free database,” said Jody Romanowski, Cimco CEO. “It’s part of our installa- tion, or we can connect MS SQL, but then the system will be more costly because the customer will have to purchase and maintain a SQL server.” In many circumstances, Cimco’s software actually performs better and has lower administrative requirements with MySQL, which is now owned by Oracle.
Along with the MDC-Max data collection pack- age, Cimco offers a part program database, NC-Base, that Romanowski said is its most popular product. “Our DNC and the Edit software are very widely used, but for higher-end database type products, NC-Base is very popular. It’s an easy-to-manage da- tabase. 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 documen- tation with the part program.”
Sharing Data through Shop Kiosks As access to shop-fl oor data proliferates through handheld devices, customers are also looking to push that data out onto the shop fl oor to reach a wider audience. After introducing its iVet app for iPhone and iPad at IMTS 2012, ERP software developer Hen- ning Industrial Software (Hudson, OH) has added the Visual EstiTrack Shop Kiosk for displaying ERP infor- mation more freely on large LCD monitors on the shop fl oor, said 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
Scytec’s cloud-based low-cost shop-fl oor monitoring system offers users real-time views of factory equipment operational status.
Photo courtesy Shop Floor Automations Inc.
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