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Setup Time Optimization for the
“Smart Workshop”
ZOLLER Inc.
Setup time optimization has many aspects and one goal: maximum machine utilization. Machines and software systems
have to work together, and tool data must be retrievable from all systems – and all of that as easily, process-reliably and
quickly as possible.
I
t is generally known that
professional tool presetting
pays off right from the first
machine. While the machine is
still producing, the next order
can be fully prepared and the
basis created for producing
optimum parts right from the
start. But far more unused
potentials are available on the
way to the machine. tool database z.One maps the
complete life cycle of a tool: from
tool delivery to initiating a new
ordering process. The intelligent
linking of all virtual and real
data allows optimization of tool
use over the entire production
process.
An important variable in the
production process sits right
between the machine spindle
and the workpiece: the tool –
the increasing variety in products
requires a large number of
different tools and frequent tool
changes. z.One – Central ZOLLER Tool
Database In practice, in particular data
transmission to the machine,
especially that of smaller
companies, is still often carried
out by “carrying them” to
the machine. Automatic data
transmission is made more
difficult because worldwide
there is a large number of
machine manufacturers who use
different control systems.
This is where the ZOLLER solutions
come into play. Tool data are
processed in such a way that,
at every step in production, the
requisite data are being provided
– from the planning stage, the
creation of the CNC program in
the CAM system, the inspection
of tools to the transmission of
data from presetter to machine
in a compatible format for the
controllers involved. The central With ZOLLER, secure transmission
of tool data is already possible
today independently of any
specific manufacturer, either via
label, RFID chip, postprocessor
or using higher-order production
control systems. One simple
but incredibly efficient variant
involves encryption of the actual
data in a data matrix code that
is scanned by a scanner device
connected to the controller on
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Process-reliable Data
Transmission to the Machine
For the smart workshop:
ZOLLER ZOLLER solutions
can be integrated into the
manufacturing process and
are easy to operate.
Global MDA Journal