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 guarantee fast, reliable transmission of tool data at all times – regardless of manufacturer or platform.
Tool data management is a complex undertaking. The seamless cooperation of all systems and components is of central importance for "Industry 4.0" – and by no means a matter of course. This is because systems and machines from different manufacturers are often used, which in turn work with different transmission technologies. Even with digital support, tool management can quickly become a challenge.
Standards such as DIN 4000 feature attribute list structure serve to enable exchange between different components; the DIN standard provides you with the option to define your individual components in accordance with the standard and thus make them interchangeable. This enables smooth information exchange between different systems (e.g., for CAD/CAM or NC simulation).
A uniform and standardized database is therefore the basis for automatic tool data import, which also works reliably across manufacturer boundaries. This is important not only because it prevents delays during transmission, which in turn would result in machine downtime and interrupted production processes, meaning that a work step cannot be carried out as planned.
Ensure manufacturer-independent data transfer with tool management software
Today, there are many reliable and fast ways to transfer data from the presetting device to the machine or machines. ZOLLER's measuring machine 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 higher-level production control systems: we offer the right data transfer solution for almost any production environment. Another highly efficient option is to encrypt the actual data in a DataMatrix code, which is scanned with a reader connected to the CNC machine control.
Better still, tool data from leading manufacturers is often available in the cloud and can be called up with minimal effort and using a mouse click with ZOLLER's TMS Tool Management Solutions software.
Additional features of TMS Tool Management Solutions
- Import and export of tools, individual components and setup sheets, accessories, machine data, and more 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 property bar
- Code scanner for identifying and displaying data for real tools
Your advantages:
- Optional connection to third-party systems
- Process reliability through error prevention
- Simple and fast handling thanks to clear structures
Find out everything you need to know about ZOLLER TMS Tool Management Solutions here
