CNC’s cost a lot of money and, the problem is, you’re paying for those machines weather or not they are running. Maximizing machine uptime is critical to the success of any shop and achieving this goal can be elusive. The missing link to getting the most out of your machines is a lack of data you can act on to realize process improvements. If you could get objective data on the most important aspects of your CNC, you could make informed decisions on how to take full advantage of the machine’s capabilities.
Machine monitoring is a data collection tool that can give you the information you need to affect change on the shop floor and optimize your processes. Machine monitoring is not new, but is still not widely used due to installation complexity and costs. New advancements in data collection technology have simplified the set-up procedure and allowed the data to be viewed on multiple platforms. For costs, it has been shown that saving one hour of downtime on a machine can pay for the monthly monitoring fee.
We’ve all heard the buzzwords; operational excellence, continuous improvement, process optimization. The truth is, there is some value in these concepts if, and only if, they can help put more to your bottom line. Machine monitoring is one of the tools you can use to get the most of out of your machines and save some money. IF you would like to learn more, let us know and we’ll be happy to discuss.