CNC equipment monitoring platform come out

Aviation International Automation Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of AVIC International (hereinafter referred to as “Hangxing International”), has developed a digital control equipment monitoring platform that has been at the forefront of the international market for five years.

With the increasing number of numerical control equipments going into all types of large and medium-sized manufacturing companies, the management of numerical control equipment has become a common research and discussion field in the industry. The difficulty in this area of ​​research is that there are no suitable cross-disciplinary talents to co-ordinate and lead the project leader must have the expertise of both CNC equipment and IT industry, which is relatively rare at home and abroad.

The so-called "monitoring platform" is called "digital manufacturing integrated control system." It is an information platform based on Ethernet that monitors, controls, and manages the site of a manufacturing plant. It links digital production equipment with production control information. It is used as an effective means for workshop production control. It can provide accurate data and perform timely. information feedback. This technology first appeared in the automobile production line. However, the type of work in the auto production line is relatively simple and the numerical control equipment is easy to manage. In the process of further research, Navistar International's project team has expanded the single production line monitoring to all-round numerical control equipment monitoring. Currently, it is possible to realize the overall management of equipment brands and systems under the same platform.

In Hangsing International's office of 7 or 8 square meters, the reporter saw a terminal that can monitor the numerical control equipment. This terminal can display the operation status of the monitored equipment and promptly report the problematic equipment. At the same time, these monitoring data are uploaded to the management system, and statistical data can be displayed in the form of icons for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly operating time, cutting time, and spindle operating time.

In the AVIC Dongan CNC machining workshop, through this system, the effective operating efficiency of 11 key equipments has increased from 24.54% to 36.5% in just six months. The change in a machining center in the batch production was most obvious. The operating rate of the NC program of the equipment was increased from 29.3% to 48.7%, the spindle operation rate was increased from 23.2% to 35.4%, the production efficiency was almost doubled, and the production pressure of the workshop was greatly increased. ease.

CNC equipment is increasingly being used in the manufacturing industry worldwide, but the systems used to manage CNC equipment are not familiar to SMEs. The leader of the project, Pan Mingwu, a senior engineer at the AVIC Institute of Integrated Technology, said that the management system for numerical control equipment is generally applicable to large and medium-sized manufacturing companies, especially in aerospace and automobile manufacturing plants that require a large number of numerical control equipment. Clear civilian prospects. With more and more companies above the scale, the demand for this system will increase.

Moreover, in the context of the global economic downturn, this system is likely to play a further role. The cost of each CNC equipment is quite expensive. If it can be used to its full capacity, it will enable companies to increase production efficiency without increasing production costs. This is undoubtedly the dream of all business owners. It is also in full compliance with the national requirements for manufacturing to increase production efficiency and achieve industrial upgrading.

“The former team leader on the production line must often go back and forth on the spot to see where there is a problem in production, look up the equipment, but sometimes it is inaccurate. Now through the monitoring system, it saves a lot of things. Many times, the key is to judge the accuracy. In general, this monitoring system has greatly helped the workshop to improve the production and management level.” The managers of other workshops know that the production efficiency of CNC machining workshop has been greatly improved recently. Su Dapeeng, the assistant director of the workshop who asked him to take charge of the preparations for production and informatization, was happy to talk about it.