Custom CNC Macros for Offset Monitoring

 If your company uses CNC machining centers, then you should be running our Custom CNC Macros for Offset Monitoring, to protect your investment. With our custom CNC Offset Monitoring, You can protect your investment and limit your downtime.

It is common for some companies to have high turnover rates among their employees. A Custom CNC Macro for Offset Monitoring is a must-have for these companies.

Does your company run customer-supplied castings? Nobody likes to make the call to the customer, telling them that you have scrapped some of their parts due to improper offsets. You can prevent this from happening by using our CNC Offset Monitoring.

We can monitor the following operator inputs with our Custom CNC Macros:

• Tool Diameter Compensation - We can limit the amount applied.
• Work Offset Coordinates - We can limit or restrict offset amounts.
• Tool Length Compensation - We can limit or restrict offset amounts. Ensure the proper length is set. Helpful for 5-axis machining to prevent tool holder crashes. 
• Block Delete - Ensure this is set to either on/off or a reminder that it is on.*
• Single Block - Ensure this is set to either on/off or a reminder that it is on.*
• Dry Run - Ensure this is set to either on/off or a reminder that it is on.*
• Or any other inputs that your operators can make.  

*Only if programmed in the PLC

Consider our Custom CNC Macros as a second set of eyes.

How often have you come to work to find out that the new hire on the off shift made a wrong offset to a tool and crashed a machine, or worse, caught it on fire?

Maybe you are running customer-supplied castings. Your seasoned operator had a rough night and fat-fingered an offset, which caused a casting to be scrapped. The internal paperwork alone can cost upwards of $500.00 on top of any repair or replacement costs for this casting out of your profits.

With everyone looking for employees, sometimes operators who are not a perfect match for the experience needed are hired. In general, one always hopes that one will pick it up very quickly, but we know that mistakes will be made. Even the most experienced operators will make mistakes. We are all human.

Any time an employee has to make an adjustment on a machine, disaster can happen. Most of the time, it is just a scrapped part or two. Yet, there are those occasions when fixtures are damaged, tooling is destroyed, or the spindle needs to be sent out for repairs.

This can all lead to machine downtime. With machine time at a premium, can you risk downtime?

With our custom CNC Macros for Offset Monitoring, we can monitor any inputs that your operators make* and raise a red flag anytime an input falls outside of a tolerance that you set. 

Generally, our sub-programs are named in the O8100 range, so you can hide them or set a password to access them. These programs can be named anything to suit your needs. Also, all programs come with very detailed documentation in the form of a Microsoft PowerPoint file or a Microsoft Word document. These documents will have detailed instructions on how to prove out the sub-programs, and how the programs work. You can easily make changes to the file when special occasions arise.

If your machines are configured to your network correctly, we can also output alerts when these programs detect a wrong input, to a file on your network. This is a useful tool, so you know which operators need more training.