Before investing in a new machine tool, shop owners re- ally need to know the productivity of their existing machines, he said. “Am I getting the hours and the productivity out of my people and the machines and the equipment I have? If not, the data management software lets you identify where the weak links in the chain are, because we’re going to show you that this machine that you think is running 24/7 is actually only running 25% of the time.” It’s not a cheap investment, Rog- ers added, with costs of monitoring installation at about $2000–$4000 per machine. The cost is lower for new machines with a modern control from FANUC, Okuma or Mazak. With these types of controls, Rogers said Preda- tor’s monitoring software can easily add data collection and monitoring. It’s less to install just the software, but the high end of those costs would be for machines requiring ad- ditional monitoring hardware. “If you have a 1987 machine with a FANUC 11M control on it, it’s going to need $1200–$1500 more in hardware,” he said, “and it may take two days to diagnose what it needs.” Machine tools equipped with MTConnect, or with proprietary con- trols like FANUC’s FOCAS, Okuma’s THINC, or protocols from Siemens or Heidenhain, are all relatively easy to connect, Rogers added. “Those proto- cols will give us a wide variety of infor- mation, and tell you things like spindle speeds, which aerospace is very fussy about because of the very expensive alloys they’re using and worry about scrapping an expensive part,” Rogers said. “Aerospace companies want to know that the operators are running at the right speeds and feeds. Those new protocols will let us get that data.” New solutions include Forcam’s “Smart Factory in a Box,” which was
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