Data Monitoring and Management for Machine Tools

Data monitoring is a key feature in current manufacturing industry. It provides the chance to know how the machine tool and the machining process are performing and opens further opportunities to improve process performance at various levels (maintenance, process control and even feedback to design). Twin-Control proposes a monitoring and data management architecture for machine tools. It consists of a modular local monitoring equipment that is flexible to cover most of the machine tool configurations. Monitored data at local level is uploaded to a cloud platform to perform fleet-level analysis. The proposed architecture has been working for almost two years, providing an excellent source of real data used as a basis for the rest of developments of Twin-Control.