Product category:
CNC and Motion Controllers
News Release from: Bosch Rexroth - Electric Drives and Controls | Subject: IndraMotion MTX
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 November 2007
Controller puts program flows on the
record
The new generation of the high-performance CNC IndraMotion MTX from Rexroth is equipped with an intelligent tool for cycle time analysis.
Rexroth's MTX Cycle Time Analyser (MTX CTA) records the cycle times of all production machine stations and provides users with an insight into the NC and PLC program flow In this way, the analysis tool identifies and eliminates bottlenecks, thus enabling optimum utilisation of the machine
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
CNC platform claims true openness
With its latest IndraMotion MTX family of controls, Rexroth is offering the world's first fully open CNC platform for metal cutting and forming machine tools.
Motion and control system for new BMW engine plant
BMW's all new engine plant will use an integrated motion and control package consisting of control systems, servo drives, hydraulics and pneumatics, supplied by Rexroth
Indramat Launches Refu Drives
Until now, Refu drives have been little used outside Germany. Now the company is part of Rexroth Indramat, that is set to change.
The MTX Cycle Time Analyser from Rexroth records the flow of CNC commands, PLC events, axis signals and signals from the machine's periphery, and it does to synchronously and accurately to the millisecond.
Results are presented graphically by Rexroth's MTX CTA in time diagrams.
Synchronisation allows the recorded data to be clearly assigned and provides an overview of how the events interact.
The analysis reveals any bottlenecks in the machine work flow, enabling the performance of the overall system to be increased.
Prior to each analysis, it is possible to configure the measurements.
Account can also be taken of signals from external transmitters via the PLC.
The beginning and end of a measurement are easy to define using corresponding commands in the CNC machining or test program.
Analysis of the measurement results is possible directly on the control system or offline.
Rexroth service provides detailed analysis and offers support to optimise the machine.
Rexroth's MTX CTA archives the results and also has analysis functions to compare them on demand with earlier measurements.
It even assesses changes to the machining sequence.
Used for regular analysis, the tool thus enables the optimum tuning of machine tools.
The analysis goes far beyond an analysis of the pure mechanics, as even slight deviations from the optimum, perhaps due to changes to the equipment or NC programs, are indicated.
• Bosch Rexroth - Electric Drives and Controls: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Engineeringtalk email newsletter
• Engineeringtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
