Machines monitoring

Reliable monitoring of the CNC machines (and not only them) requires collecting high-quality production data.

Information from your production and machinery should be available easily, quickly (in real-time), and without the disadvantages of manual data entry.

That’s why machines monitoring in Scout MES is based on downloading data directly from the machine’s controller, via the company’s LAN.

For each control system, we select the best possible communication method for accessing production data directly from the machine.

Scout provides real-time machine data, which, in opposition to manual acquisition, has a number of advantages:

1. data is acquired automatically
In the case of the most popular CNC machines, connecting them to Scout monitoring is done without any electrical interference in the machines.
This also allows machine monitoring to be started up quickly and fully remotely.

2. data is available immediately
The data received from the machines is saved into a database and is immediately available to interested people via a web browser.
There is no need to enter the data manually or transcribe it to a computer, e.g. at the end of a shift.
The most important Scout views can be customized according to customer requirements.

3. data is uncorrupted and taken directly from the machines
In machinery performance monitoring, this is extremely important.

All this makes production management and calculation of key productivity indicators (such as OEE), based on real information coming directly from the machinery.

Moreover, Scout allows machines monitoring and gives access to information otherwise unreachable, such as:

• real work and idle time (for some controls, you can even get even more accurate machine time, i.e. the execution time G01, G02 / 03)
• path of the program being executed
• current speed
• number of parts
• feed/rapid speeds
• value from the speed potentiometer (override)
• spindle loads

All this without the need for electrical interference in the machines. They just need to be connected to the company’s LAN.

Scout is an Industry 4.0 tool that allows companies of any size to start enjoying the benefits of machine monitoring easily, quickly and at low cost.

Sometimes there is a need to supplement machine data with information from operators. The Operator Panel was created specifically for this purpose in Scout.