Cyber-Physical System to Improve Machining Process Performance

Machining process is set-up in the machines at different levels of maturity. While in large batch manufacturing, a long time is spent in process design and optimization, and in small batch production, the process design time is limited, and the designed process is far to be optimized. In any case, the possibility to control and optimize the process at machine level is very important to increase the productivity. The concept of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is introduced in this paper to increase machine tool performance and process productivity. Several CPS-based features developed in Twin-Control are presented.