Using visual and auditory cues an experienced Manufacturing Manager can often sense when a factory is running well. Silence means no production. No workers present, no production. It’s an informal, and highly subjective, form of machine monitoring with “data” obtained through “Managing By Walking About” (MBWA.) The practice has much to recommend…
Imagine driving a car where the dashboard reports yesterday’s speed and distance covered. It sounds bizarre yet that’s how many Operations and Production Managers run their factories. They know output and OEE numbers for the previous day, but that’s of little help in maximizing performance today. What they need are…
This Scytec DataXchange machine monitoring update we’ve added a new Source into DataXchange. DataXchange can now read directly from the Haas NGC controls over a wired or wireless Ethernet connection, without any additional hardware. Data items include running or not running, feed rate and spindle overrides, alarm information, the program…
A highlight of the Scytec DataXchange machine monitoring update includes a new RTV View showing alarm information which can be used for MTConnect, Fanuc FOCAS, and OPC-UA based machines. The Equipment Status Summary can now be run in weekly increments, and permissions have been expanded to provide more granular control….
To start with, everyone here at Scytec would like to wish all of our customers a happy New Year. As we step into the new decade we wanted to share a little information about some upcoming plans for 2020 and our roadmap for the Scytec DataXchange machine monitoring service, as…
