Advanced precision engineering company Australian Precision Technologies (APT) located in Melbourne’s South Eastern suburbs is achieving amazing real time machine productivity thanks to Okuma’s latest Connect Plan Machine Monitoring.
As part of its continuous improvement strategy, this quality accredited AS9100 rev D (Aviation, Space & Defence) and ISO 9001 company has introduced the Okuma Connect Plan connected to 18 CNC machines to monitor the production process, efficiency and performance of all the machines in real time with immediate visual information on centralised screens.
Okuma Connect Plan is a system to increase process efficiency collecting machine tool data and presenting it in a very easy to understand format to optimise machine operations. It is not just for Okuma machines but any brand of machine tool or equipment.
This A1 algorithm tool, Okuma Connect Plan data collection system is a simple visual aid of Red – machine down, Yellow – machine is idle and Green – machine running. It learns how you use your machine tool information to predict the ever elusive yellow machine status. It puts the system variables, parameters, machine specs and other tool information to automatically determine why a machine is sitting idle. Once corrected it will spot that and similar scenarios during operations in the future.
Central to APT’s continuous improvement development is its care for its people and the strong culture of involvement, resulting in excess of 85% staff engagement with values set and acted on by the company including Vision, Mission, Quality, Teamwork and Honesty.
“Okuma is leading the way in the Smart Factory development in manufacturing with up to the minute modern day tools such as Okuma Connect Plan,” said Okuma Australia’s Managing Director Dean McCarroll.
”We are currently in the process of installing Okuma Connect Plan in a number of other companies and we look forward to watching APT and others continue to grow and expand production with the introduction of further efficiencies with the benefit of the Okuma Connect Plan.” he said.
If you are interested in learning more about the advantages of the Okuma Connect Plan system please call 1300 1 OKUMA.