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Digitization will Magnify Mechanical Innovations
T
he machine tool industry is always innovating: Control systems, mechanical tolerancing, cutting, and adaptive feedback mechanisms just get better
and better. But machines are about to be turbocharged— by digitization. Commercial aerospace and defense manufacturers are changing their model from produce at any cost to opera- tional effi ciency. Digital machines are essential for that transition to happen. The move from machines that are isolated production centers to digitally connected machines that participate in a dynamic environment will occur in three phases: visualize, learn, and optimize. Along the way, leaps in connectivity, security, data mod- els, data services and automation will lead to more advanced control architectures.
Mechanical innovation will continue to advance as always. But the days when new mechanical innovations by themselves led to sustained growth in market share are ending. The digital revolution will magnify those mechanical innovations and enable machines to move from isolation to fully integrated production models that evolve toward learning systems. The coming transformation depends on robust con-
nectivity, security, fl exible compute and a software platform approach that makes the process repeatable and scalable. Security will be a top priority for defense and aerospace— where a lack of a security framework for manufacturing in general has held back digitization. First, we need to visualize the machine. While each manufacturer needs to know how to measure what is going on with its machines second by second, the vast majority of the world’s 65 million machines remains largely invisible to the usual software applications manufac- turers could be using to visualize machine performance. This phase will be about solving the connectivity, integration and data-acquisition challenges that MTConnect was created to address. This phase is about to accelerate with many more machine tool vendors and manufacturers adopting MTCon- nect as their standard protocol for data integration and
Senior Manager, Connected Machines and Robots Cisco’s IoT Vertical Solutions Group
acquisition. Watch for a wave of connectivity and innovation. Some of the largest A&D manufacturers and fabricators have already made MTConnect a standard for integration of their new CNC machines. Mazak, with the announcement of the Mazak SmartBox solution, is going digital with an innovative platform approach. Second, we must learn from the data we collect. The digital integration must lead to valuable-based outcomes in manufacturing. In the visualization phase, the outcome was simple and clear; green light time, machine state, utilization. It’s about knowing what the machines are up to and using that information to schedule better, cost better, or operate better. The learning phase builds on that and drives trending analysis over time. This phase is dominated by data col- lection, advanced visualizing and analytics. Here, we’ll see more predictive maintenance solutions like FANUC’s ZDT for cloud-connected robots. We can now track not only machine behavior over time but also the process, tooling, and even how effi cient the NC programs are.
A cloud strategy and an end-to-end IoT software platform that integrates with machines and provides turnkey data services that scale globally are essential to scale, manage, operate and realize value for this phase. Many machine build- ers and robot makers are developing a cloud-based platform approach to connecting their machines. Third, manufacturers will optimize continuously based on what is learned from crunching their data. We will see continuously improved machine operations,
tooling, process, speed of cut and even NC programs. The value of the secure, connected, cloud software strat- egy becomes clear in the last two phases.
Isolated machines cannot leverage the power of continu-
ous learning, distributed compute and advanced analytics. Automated, securely connected and digitized machines will help the most innovative aerospace and defense fi rms beat the competition and deliver high-quality, lower cost compo- nents and assemblies.
45 — Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing 2016
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