Ben Groves

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    Haas Part Counter

    Default - Single Cycle By default a Haas CNC will part count when it reaches M30. This is most common on milling machines or single spindle lathes.   Continuous Looping Programs with M99 Where prog...

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    Automatic Downtime Categorization

    How does it work? We use simple If That Then This (IFTTT) logic scenarios to automatically set the downtime category for the machine. We combine one or more triggers to create an action. We use ti...

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    Tool Life Monitoring Lab

      Getting Started First you must pull the Tool Life Monitoring (TLM) data you require from the CNC. This is typically done in the machine connection (Fanuc) JSON script. Here are two examples for ...

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    Connecting Bystronic Machines with OPC-UA

    Enable OPC-UA on the control You need to enable OPC-UA which is found under Modules\Administration\Advanced Settings   See below.     Opening Ports   The port 56000 on the Brake panel PC and the S...

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    How to set up a TV Dashboard

    Prerequisites MachineMetrics kiosk account TV with either Android OS or windows PC attached Creating a kiosk account We need an account that is used only for TV dashboards and/or tablets. Please ...

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    How to get Part Count with Fanuc

    There are several ways on a Fanuc CNC to count parts, here are a few scenarios and guides.   Standard Cycle - manually loaded part In this case the machine should count on an M30 or M02. However, ...