Customizable system alerts make it easier for an operator to supervise multiple machines and help instill greater confidence in lights-out production. Role-based access provides staff access to the status of the required machines, so they can check program and utilization information from any location using a computer, tablet, or mobile phone. The application can be used by production staff across manufacturing organizations to pinpoint bottlenecks and optimize the utilization of CNC machinery, and by management to measure the ROI of those assets and identify valuable improvements in OEE.īuilt in Hexagon’s cloud-native SFx platform, the application acquires and processes Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data in real time to provide shop-floor operators access to machine-tool status at any time.
Hexagon’s SFx Asset Management application is already trusted by global manufacturers to improve employee productivity and the utilization of Hexagon metrology devices, and now also records CNC machine tool operating data so that teams can analyze and mitigate downtime. While OEE is based upon a machine tool’s availability, performance and the quality of the parts it produces, accurately measuring OEE is difficult without immediate access to comprehensive operating data.
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For unattended series machining, timely performance information becomes critical because consistent historical data makes it possible to predict problems, and plan operator inventions and maintenance. In operator-intensive departments, this data gap presents difficulties valuating machine availability and performance over time. This can introduce human error, and the data is not made available fast enough to be analyzed and actioned.
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Purchasing an expensive machine tool will increase productivity, but few manufacturers are able to realize the full potential of such expensive assets because critical information such as machine-tool availability is often recorded via paperwork or spreadsheets.
Increasing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is the goal of any manufacturer, but without reliable information it can be difficult to pinpoint improvements to machine shop operations. Cloud-native CNC machine-tool asset management introduced by Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division connects to almost any machine-tool, enabling machine shops to optimize their return on investment (ROI) using its real-time status dashboards with mobile operator alerts and enabling global manufacturers to analyze machine fleet utilization across multiple plants.