CONNECT PLAN
When all your machines connect, everything starts to click
One network connects all of your machines, regardless of age or control builder.
With Connect Plan you can monitor the activity in your factory so that you can plan and predict machine performance and uptime.
Get real-time updates about your machines no matter where you are.
Smart Manufacturing
Okuma’s new Connect Plan provides analytics for improved utilisation by connecting machine tools and providing visual control of factory operations and machining. The software-based system monitors and collects data to fine-tune processes and improve productivity. The OSP control (accommodations can also be made for non-Okuma controls) connects to a PC installed with Factory Monitor suite. This enables the machine operation status to be visible from the shop floor, the office, or the smartphone.
3D Virtual Monitor
Machining simulation
Higher levels of automation as well as connected machines and processes make it more difficult to avoid errors. 3DVM is our digital manufacturing solution that is used to design, simulate and test the entire machining process before cutting actually starts.
Simulation on a computer that acts just like a real machine!
Accurate 3D simulation
Our 3D Virtual Monitor software provides accurate, 3-dimensional machining simulations based on the machine and cutting programme you are using. The NC programs may come from its own Advanced One-Touch or from other sources such as CAM systems. 3DVM uses the exact specifications of your Okuma machine in order to know, in advance, if your program will safely, quickly and accurately produce the desired part. Small errors in a cutting program can have a huge impact on productivity. Ultimately, our 3DVM feature eliminates costly repairs by testing programmes before they ever hit the machine.
Benefits
- Identifies programming errors before they cause damage and avoids machine repair cost
- Saves significant time for first part prove-out and eliminates costly machine downtime for parts programming
- Simulates cutoff and transfer operations
- Checks turret synchronisations quickly and efficiently
- PC equivalent of CAS – Creates and manages model definition files offline and simply transfers the data to the actual machine tool
Monitoring and Tracing
Email notification of machine alarms can be checked and the Okuma NET BOX suite-C even connects to machines from other manufacturers. Connect Plan achieves machining traceability by tying together the individual ID of a machined workpiece with the machining data and gauging results for each machine. If a problem occurs, the cause can be analysed and higher-quality production can be reinstated with greater assurance. In addition, the collected process data can be used to predict and schedule maintenance intervals.
Okuma’s remote diagnostics allows the screen from a customer’s machine to be viewed by a service engineer for accurate communication. This means that a diagnosis can be made while looking at the same screen. All available machine data can be collected, evaluated, and made available according to the customers’ needs.