SHOPLINK for productions units and Tool rooms

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Shop link is a combination of Electronic hardware & software for collecting valuable data from factory on line. It can be connected to various CNC machines as well as manually and NC operated machines. It can monitor events & collects some data from operator's panel. Data from operator panel can be customized. Collected data can be utilized to generate various MIS reports. This reports are useful for Management to calculate overall efficiency of the plant.

What is shop link?

Shop link can be integrated with wireless or wired DNC network. Shop link hardware interface units can be connected between PC and NC/CNC for collecting on line data from CNC.

Shop link software shows on line status of all NC/CNC machines from Server. It has simplified menus for on line selection of various reports to be generated on line.

This shows Machine on/off status, Cycle or spindle on/off and shop link on/off status on line

Machine Utilization Report

This generates machine utilization report in the form of OEE. This OEE can be generated at any point of time; Specify period and OEE is generated for a machine or cell.

This is very important report. Management would like to know the OEE and it's improvement. Even 2% increase in this efficiency would get ROI of Shop link system.

Shop link graphs

This graphs can show effectiveness of production time and idle time. Idle time in various areas are displayed in different colors to understand it quickly.

This can be used for presenting effective utilization of production time. It can be generated with various combination like single machine, multiple machines, cell, plant, line and with specified period like week, months, quarter and yearly.

Average Cycle time graph

This report shows cycle time and idle time in graphical format.

This would be very important to check whether average cycle time is maintained over a period of time to maintain consistent quality and efficient utilization of tooling. This would also show trial run cycle run time. This can be used to analyze job rejection causes.

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