Tool Management: Your Advantages
Find out how tool management from ZOLLER immediately increases your productivity. Processes run faster and more reliably with tool data—including crash protection for your machines.
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Transmission of Tool Data
Ensure secure, high-speed data transfer at all times
Data exchange between individual production elements is essential for modern industrial manufacturing. ZOLLER’s software solutions ensure the reliable and rapid transfer of tool data at all times—regardless of manufacturer or platform.
Tool data management is a complex undertaking. Seamless collaboration among all systems and components is of central importance for “Industry 4.0”—and by no means a given. This is because systems and machines from different manufacturers are often in use, each of which employs different transmission technologies. As a result, tool management can quickly become a challenge, even with digital support.
Standards such as the DIN 4000 attribute bar structure serve to facilitate the exchange of data between different components; the DIN standard provides you with the option of defining your individual components in accordance with the standard and thus making them interchangeable. This enables a seamless exchange of information between different systems (such as for CAD/CAM or NC simulation).
A uniform and standardized database is therefore the foundation for automatic tool data import that functions reliably even across different manufacturers. This is important not only because it prevents delays during data transmission—which in turn would lead to machine downtime, interrupted production processes, and the inability to carry out a work step as planned—but also for other reasons.
Ensure Vendor-Neutral Data Transfer with Tool Management Software
Today, there are many reliable and fast methods that are specialized for transferring data from the presetting device to the machine or machines. ZOLLER’s measuring device software now makes secure tool data transfer possible, regardless of the manufacturer.
Whether via RFID chip, post-processor (DNC system: Distributed Numerical Control), or even through higher-level production control systems, we offer the right data transfer solution for virtually any manufacturing environment. Another highly efficient option is to encode the actual data into a DataMatrix code, which is scanned using a reader connected to the CNC machine’s control system.
Better yet: Tool data from leading manufacturers is often available in the cloud and can be called up with the ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions software with a single mouse click.
Additional Features of TMS Tool Management Solutions
- Importing and exporting tools, individual components, setup sheets, accessories, machine data, and other items between individual ZOLLER products
- Platform- and manufacturer-independent import and export of tool data (via import filters or post-processors, if necessary)
- Mobile access to all tool data and tool lists
- Tool data management with graphics, parts and accessory lists, and a property bar
- Code scanner for identifying and displaying data for actual tools
Your benefits:
- Optional integration with third-party systems
- Process reliability through error prevention
- Simple and fast handling thanks to clear structures
Learn everything about ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions here
