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Setting Up the Building Blocks for a Digital Factory

Modern Machine Shop

Second, the software streamlines the development of successful automation integrations, both directly through simplification of robot cell control and indirectly through revision control and facilitation of machine tool compensation features. Woodward uses multiple functions within MiConnect on its Okuma Multus machines.

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Data Visibility Boosts Beryllium Shop’s Revenue

Modern Machine Shop

McKay turned to several time clock providers for assistance, and one eventually recommended that WessDel look at Harmoni, which includes a time clock function as part of its overall package. The granular level of reporting and revision control onboard the Harmoni system make determining the source of errors relatively simple.

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Can Connecting ERP to Machine Tool Monitoring Address the Workforce Challenge?

Modern Machine Shop

Providing for real-time evaluation of performance was the initial promise, but the system has proven effective for something even more powerful: assuring NC program revision control, and the correct assignment of programs and work instructions to every part.

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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

In what Chris McLaughlin from Vertech describes as “stupidity or altruism,” he offered to build RITI one cohesive software platform that would encompass all the existing functionality and add the missing features required to scale their service for the homeless. There are three categories of nodes: inputs, functions, and outputs.