Features

Monitor up to 4000 Devices

Have an entire shop floor of CNC machines? Predator MDC™ (Manufacturing Data Collection) supports up to 4000 machines, plcs, robots for simultaneous cycle starts, cycle ends, spindle time, and an unlimited number of user defined input events. Track machines, personnel, parts, and processes in real-time. Organize your machines by grouping them per building or cell. Connect your PC's and create an entire real-time shop floor machine monitoring and data collection network.

Software-Enabled and Hardware-Enabled

Frustrated with installing and maintaining proprietary hardware-based machine monitoring and running the risks of voiding your CNC machine's warranty? Predator MDC provides software and hardware based solutions and works with the machines existing RS232, RS422, or Ethernet input and output capabilities. Supports most major CNC machine and control builders, including Allen Bradley, Cincinnati, Fanuc, Fadal, Haas, Mazak, Mitsubishi, Mori Seiki, Okuma, Siemens, Yasnac and many others.

Ethernet-Enabled

Looking to monitor ethernet based devices like PLCs, CNCs, and Robots? SFA has exclusively developed technology to link directly to Fanuc I series controls to pull data such as part number, cycle status, alarm, and more to work with Predator MDC.  This works with Fanuc controls suporting Focus1/2 drivers.  Future plans are being made for Siemens, Mazak and Okuma as well. 

Monitor an Unlimited Number of Events

Need to monitor more than 4 or 8 events per machine? Since Predator MDC is a software and hardware based solution, an unlimited number of machine events can be monitored. An unlimited number of user-defined events can be added to any machine or just selected machines. Time, operator, or process/program studies can be made by customizing the events that are monitored on each machine.

Reports & Graphs

Need to generate summary reports and graphs? Predator MDC includes over 80 standard reports. Custom reports can be created with numerous third party applications, such as Crystal Reports. Examples of available reports and graphs (links open in new window):

• Shift Summary Report gives detailed shift information regarding good parts, scraped parts, scheduled and unscheduled downtimes, and much more.
• Production Detail Report lists by resource (in this case by department), good parts, scrap parts, quality percentage, scheduled parts per hour, production parts per hour, and production percentage achieved for the time period selected.
• Production Detail by Part Report similar to the Production Detail Report listed above, this report utilizes the part number as the resource.
• Production Detail by User Report similar to the Production Detail Report listed above, this report utilizes the user as the resource.
• Machine Time Report lists totals by resource (in this case by department) for logon time, cycle time, setup time, down time, and idle time for the time period you select.
• Machine Time by User Report similar to the Machine Time Report listed above, this report utilizes the user as the resource.
• Productivity Summary Graph is viewed by the resource selected and compares production time, planned downtime, unplanned downtime, and setup time as an overall percentage for the resource and time period selected.
• Good vs. Scrap Summary Graph is viewed by resource (in this case by department), compares the good parts run by each shift for the the time period you select.
• Good Parts Summary Graph is viewed by resource (in this case by department), compares the good parts run by each shift for the the time period you select.
• Hours Summary Graph for a department, compares the total scheduled shift hours, actual production hours, and actual cycle hours, against the total number of shift hours available.
• Downtime Summary Graph for a department, details all scheduled and non-scheduled downtimes as a percentage of the overall downtime for any time period you select.

No New RS232 Cabling Required

Tired of running dedicated wiring from machine to machine just for monitoring purposes? Predator MDC eliminates dedicated wiring and leverages your existing Predator DNC™ and network wiring. Fully supports Predator DNC™, Flex, Flex/2, Flex/3, Flex/N Bundles, and Grizzly Cables™.

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