Re: LC20 136-2 ALARM-A S.M COMMAND ASYNCHRONIZE B-TURRET 4 PROGRAM
hy mr wizard, if the machine is stopped a few times a day, so for the operator to put material inside the spindle, then the operator will see the alarm
also, during periodical inspection, and offset adjustemnt, it should see the alarm
if the machine is running in continous mode, being used with a bar feeder, and using :
... sdf, then it may exist the risc to execute the "face-cut" at each part, and this will lead to downtime; to eliminate this risk, is needed to mess up with the feeder-macro, and few programmers are entering that area
... min & goto, then it will execute the "face-cut" only one time, for each bar
* about the 'face-cut' behaviour, i am not sure how okuma handles it; i am talking about this, only from seing what other machines are doing
pselect is leading to downtime at each cycle, and that can be avoided by using goto
tool life, and monitoring, those can be coded alternatively, using system variables
cycle time calculation is not critical after production has begun, and maybe not even in the early/initial setup time; a setup can be improved without checking it's value, but a more general one, like parts/shift, and this includes normal auxialary time
if a shop is running lights-out without checking the lube on a daily basis, then that shop has also other problems
also, during long setups, turret position when begining the 1st part, may be in a different location, compared to when begining to cut the 2nd part, and such a behaviour can not be obtained with sdf
of course, i understand that you look into safety 1st, and this may save the day
i talk about the probability of this event, thus running out of lube, during machining, without an operator being arround ... to reduce the probabiliy, i have used paper records for daily maintenance, and changing lube parameters when going to loooong setups / kindly
ps : when it comes to possible errors during long setups, the low-lube-level is a lessons that is learned pretty fast; one that i am concerned, is when using bar-pullers that are not 'tensioned' properly, pulling without load-monitor active, because they can induce, at each part, a z-effort considerably high
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