Shop Floor DNC, Machine Monitoring, File Management and Probing made simple.
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CIMCO DNC-Max works with your existing CNC machines and provides a full-featured solution for managing and transferring CNC programs. Supports drip feeding, downloading, and uploading via RS-232, Ethernet and wireless Ethernet – and supports program transfers to be initiated directly from the CNC control.
NC-Base is a CNC program management tool that allows you to organize and manage your CNC programs and related production documents.
Management of part programs and associated production documents is often a time consuming task for CNC programmers and operators. CIMCO NC-Base takes care of that job and goes one step further. By providing an integrated and highly flexible management, search and editing environment, programmers and operators are guaranteed to work more effectively.
MDC-Max is the complete MDC solution that automatically gathers and processes manufacturing data from the shop floor in real-time. Easily generate reports and charts with automatic calculation of OEE, cycle time, idle time, setup time, downtime and more. MDC-Max features real-time machine monitoring with Live Screens and has a fully customizable Operator interface for entering downtime reasons directly at the machine.
MDC-Max can benefit the one man operation with a few machines and the corporate enterprise with multiple factories. The MDC-Max software is highly flexible and easily customized to fit your current and future data collection needs. Since MDC-Max is a networked solution that stores data on a central server you can monitor production from multiple locations and access the data from anywhere.
Probing can improve your machining process in many ways.However, it is often underutilized due to the challenges of having to use external software, editing NC programs or manually adding probing cycles through your CNC controller.
CIMCO Probing is a fully integrated add-on for Mastercam that addresses all of these issues by making probing an integrated part of the Mastercam programming process. CIMCO Probing helps improve the quality of parts, increases productivity and reduces setup-time and eliminates manual processes. Easily program your machining spindle-mounted touch probe directly in Mastercam the same way you program toolpaths. CIMCO Probing generates machine-independent g-code that is inserted directly into the NC program and can be customized to work with any kind of probe.
Manufacturing companies often need to manage large amounts of documents such as CAD/CAM files, NC programs, setup sheets, tool lists, and QA documents. Not having all of these documents securely stored, organized, and made accessible this can lead to wasted time, decreased production, and costly mistakes.
While NC-Base is designed to manage revision controls and user level permissions of NC programs and their related files, NC-Base is designed to manage all documents in your shop.
CIMCO MDM can integrate with all of your existing software applications and machines. It provides a central hub for managing and controlling all of your manufacturing related data, for accessing your applications, and helps ensure that authorized employees and machines get access to the right information efficiently.
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In this example you can have a PC on the shop-floor with a multi-port serial card and communicate to CNCs directly. This is a good cost-effective setup for smaller shops.
Medium to large shops can utilize many different options getting all their CNCs connected to the network and easily getting NC Programs back and forth.
INTEGRATED PROBING SOLUTION FOR MASTERCAM
CIMCO Probing includes a wide range of Probe Cycles to handle most measurement needs. Cycles can be customized through user-defined parameters with assisting drawings that make it easy to see what each parameter controls in the cycle. For convinience, CIMCO Probing can intelligently fill in parameter values based on stock model geometry.
Surface Probing makes it easy to select surface points and surface normals on curved geometry. For any point chosen on the model, a measuring cycle is generated and the result of the measurements is compared with the 3d model.
CIMCO Probing works seamlessly inside Mastercam and includes its own dedicated tab in the Ribbon bar with icons for adding Cycle or Surface Probing. Probing options are shown in the Manager Panel and once a cycle is added, it is stored in Mastercam’s Toolpath Manager where it can be repeatedly adjusted as needed.
All probe tool movements can be fully visualized and verified using Mastercam’s Backplot, Verify and Machine Simulation. In addition to being convenient, this also provides confidence that your probe tool remains undamaged during machining. Probe tool collisions can be detected and resolved before the program is machined.
