PRODUCTION TARGETED INFORMATION
The strongest and most successful feature in our proposal is a wide know-how on how to integrate technical data (describing production process) and management data relevant for realisation process.
CUSTOMIZED FACTORY INTEGRATION
Our capacity to directly interface machine control systems, together with the knowledge we have of their operating modes, arise from decades of continuous development in the industrial automation sector. This experience and our skills in developing custom solutions, enabled us to build integrated solutions for manufacturing, which seamlessly range from sensors to enterprise Information management system.
RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION
Constant collaboration with research institutes and numerous experimental projects carried out together with customers, allow us to identify solutions, capable of supporting of a practical way the various activities of manufacturing companies.
FLEXIBLE AND
INDIPENDENT
Our software services, delivered in accompaniment to the machining equipment, allow to exploit the whole potential flexibility of modern production lines, at the same time, thanks to the ability of the software, to take the critical decisions during the real time processing, to improve production’s autonomy.
Effective production processes are modular, reusable and scalable. With our software is possible to reach these targets, easily.
MODULAR PROJECT
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY
On the occasion of the BI-MU fair in Milan, MCE presented a new and interesting application, concerning Predictive Maintenance on Cloud MindSphere, developed on the cloud platform in collaboration with the 40Factory company. PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE ON CLOUD MINDSPHERE:
The MCM European Sharework project will bring a new smart system to the market integrated by different software modules, with the aim of driving collaborative work between operators and robots without need for physical protection barriers, thereby boosting process productivity and improving the ergonomics of those workstations where it is implemented.
To complete the FMS plant management solution, MCM recently developed a new machine data monitoring and predictive maintenance system, composed of different sensors and the Edge jNODE FR device on which MCE, the group’s IT division, has implemented the jFRX software. for high frequency collection and aggregation of machine data.
On the occasion of the 15 years since the first installation of the Network Part Program (NPP) module, we make a brief history of the functionality that represented a real revolution in the execution and management of the machining of the pieces, performed on numerically controlled work centers.
jFMX is equipped with special tool management policies. Visualization layout of the racks and status of the tools in jFMX is available the layout, updated in real time, of the racks contained in the plant. This view allows you to check the availability of places in the warehouse, the status of loaded tools and manipulators.
The production execution of the single MCM production cell are coordinated by the jFMX supervision software that selects the work to be carried out on the basis of the workability and the urgency of the individual codes.
The client: a third party supplier of aluminium machined parts to the aerospace market. Conventional mono- or bi-pallets machining centers, without flexible automation. Target: the need to guarantee small batch production, reducing efficiency loss, due to very frequent setups. Solution: The application of jFMX supervisory software to each machine in the shop floor, integrated with the support of our Level2 services, made the data flow completely automated. Production orders, cutting tool data, part programs are taken from enterprise information management systems (ERP, PPE, TDM) and used to control process execution and to manage production resources.
Every single bi-pallet machine has been configured as a virtual multi-pallet cell, with a queue of pallets waiting to be machined. During the day the operator checks the work-cycle on a single part, with several iterations managed by jFMX NetPP executor. There’s no need for the operator to interact directly with CNC of machining cell or ISO code. Multi-faceted and multi-clamp pallets are prepared for production and processed unattended during night-shifts.
The client: a shop floor which produces 7500 different operations on 1200 codes for 5 different product lines. For the milling, MCM machining centers are used in flexible automation systems, both multi-pallets and FMSs. The problem: optimized allocation of production orders to all machines, complete trace of resources usage (machine tools, tools) to get detailed analysis of production’s costs, without the need to load on machine operators the burden of time-consuming tracking operations, particularly critical in a production environment characterized by a growing number of small size lots.
The solution: installation of jFMX on any machine tool, getting them ready for fast reaction to a hard to predict production context using responsive dispatch rules. Over this layer, a Level2 platform, has been integrated, featuring complex instruments for workload balancing and lot planning trough time. This platform is able to get orders from factory IT system and to render the work progress in real time.
The Client: a leader in oleo-hydraulics sector. The Problem: A factory equipped with modern machining centers with flexible automation, facing the shrinking product lifecycle and the growing product variations. The Solution: A new way of programming machining work cycles, using the NetPP model and a reusable machining operation library, managed by L2-Machining service, linked to all the jFMX instances, controlling the machining centers.
Workplans are managed by the process planning and engineering (PPE) office and delivered to the machines, based on the production plan. Every modification made on the fly, is sent back to PPE office for validation. Once these modifications are confirmed they’re stored in the library, making them re-usable for further projects.
