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than five years. This means the control that is on the machine you buy today, won’t be obsolete in a few years.”
CNC Connectivity with the IIoT Future There’s a big buzz about the industry right now with connected machines, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and CNC developers see great promise in leveraging Big Data coming from the shop floor. Connected machines was a hot topic at EMO, Kosmala said. “Everyone’s talking about it, and I think what you’re going to see is a lot of small companies getting into it. “Right now, I’ll shoot from the hip and say within five years, you’re going to see the many small companies in today’s fragmented market distilled down to a few large companies leading the IIoT effort,” Kosmala said. “The Microsoft and Apple of IIoT will emerge, and step up and define this for the industry.” An open-architecture PC control like Okuma’s OSP has an edge in this devel- oping IIoT industry, he noted. “All these IIoT and IoT companies, whatever they do, they’re developing on PCs.”
Many Okuma customers also have older machines prior to the P300 PC-based
control, which need MTConnect to connect these older machines. “We need MTConnect to connect to all of our legacy machines,” Kosmala said. “For all P200A and P300 control vintage machines, there is an MTConnect app on the Okuma App Store [at
www.myokuma.com], which is all you need. Download and install that free app, and you are running MTConnect on your Okuma, no hardware required.” The terms Industry 4.0 and the IIoT are basically the same concept, Siemens’ Legg said. “There are so many approaches to this emerging at the moment. At Siemens, we are positioning ourselves by not only offering our own direct solutions such as our Sinumerik Integrate for Production software suite, but also support- ing emerging control neutral protocols such as MTConnect, through our Solution Partner, TechSolve.
Connected machines and controls stand to have a great effect on the
industry, Legg added. “The ultimate effect, when deployed in an effective way, will be increased productivity and greater visibility into manufacturing data,” he said. “Downtime can be drastically reduced by deploying proactive maintenance methods as well as having the ability to be alerted instantly via text message or some other method regarding a machine’s current status. The OEE of a ma- chine and even an entire plant can be analyzed more thor- oughly and accu- rately. This can allow manufacturers to potentially pinpoint bottlenecks in their process and take actions to improve. The possibilities are really limitless.”
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FANUC America Corp.
888-326-8287 /
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847-490-1191 /
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Hurco Machine Tools 800-634-2416 /
hurco.com Okuma America Corp.
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