Linghua Introduced Cutting Vibration Monitoring Scheme to Make CNC Machining Machine Intelligent
Nowadays, smart phones have changed from plastic back cover to thin metal body. Although the smart appearance attracts consumers, the production process of mobile phone case parts suppliers is more difficult. Only because the cutting and processing of the case requires quite high precision, even if it is only a small deviation, it may cause workpiece scrapping and erode profits.
In order to improve the yield of CNC processing, mobile phone box manufacturers are often forced to change tools frequently to ensure that CNC machines maintain a normal production beat, but this leads to an increase in the cost of consumables and also affects profits. In addition, the mobile phone case processing industry attaches great importance to the production rate, for fear that the sudden failure of CNC cutting machine will lead to negative chain reactions such as production capacity decline and delivery delay, which will damage customer satisfaction and goodwill. Therefore, it allocates manpower to carry out regular inspection and entrusts outsourcers to provide second-line maintenance support, but these methods are passive, It is difficult to effectively deal with abnormal conditions at the first time.
Mobile phone case is one of the cases of CNC machine application. CNC cutting is widely used in various processing and manufacturing, and various suppliers are facing a similar profit defense war. Xu Changyi, manager of Linghua technology measurement and automation products division, believes that whether you want to improve the machining accuracy or increase the productivity, the axe bottom salary drawing plan is to monitor the cutting process, especially the vibration monitoring, mainly because once the vibration value of the machine rises beyond the reasonable range due to imbalance, resonance or misalignment, It is easy to affect the operation of the machine, resulting in fault shutdown.
PC based monitoring solution is better than PLC solution to capture fine vibration signals
If the CNC processing machine can be endowed with intelligence and built with a set of full-time vibration monitoring mechanism, it can diagnose the health state of the machine at any time. Instead of waiting for the output of the final finished product and judging the cause of the abnormality afterwards, it can detect the unusual state of the processing machine in real time through preventive detection in advance and take corresponding treatment measures quickly, Including optimizing and adjusting processing parameters (such as changing spindle speed), or changing tools, etc. to solve small deviations immediately and avoid causing major disasters in the future.
It can not be denied that the cutting vibration monitoring of CNC machining machines is not a new topic at this moment. In the past, there were some PLC solutions with the demand of simplicity and convenience, which boasted that as long as the CNC machine was connected, it could produce utility quickly; Therefore, it is inevitable that some people wonder why PC based monitoring scheme is needed since PLC is available to assist in cutting vibration monitoring?
The so-called devil lies in the details. Some subtle vibration signals or high-frequency signals reflect some facts to some extent. It may be that the connecting mechanism begins to be unbalanced, the rotating spindle bearing ball breaks and affects the transmission power, or the fasteners become loose, which means that the CNC machining machine begins to "get sick", and the symptoms are different with the different machine characteristics; These subtle and changeable signs are not easy to capture by virtue of the PLC solution with the characteristics of low sampling rate, supporting limited bandwidth range and fixed algorithm. If the CNC monitoring solution can capture small changes and help users quickly grasp the key factors that may lead to reduced accuracy or capacity decline, they can respond as soon as possible.
In view of this, Linghua launched a cutting vibration monitoring scheme called mcm-100, which boasts that it can carry out 24-hour continuous data acquisition and vibration measurement for rotating transfer machinery and equipment under the condition of high precision and high sampling rate, and integrate the functions of data collection, vibration analysis and calculation, operation, Internet access and so on, Assist CNC machine users to successfully solve various challenges faced by traditional cutting process, and endow CNC machine with intelligence in the most relaxed and burden-free way.Achieve the wonderful effect of preventive maintenance through high-precision monitoring
Xu Changyi explained that generally speaking, there are three detection situations that CNC machines most want to establish. One is "spindle vibration detection", which aims to monitor the vibration of the spindle during cutting. The method is to directly measure the RMS value of the time domain signal. If it exceeds the critical value, reduce the speed or stop running; The second is "bearing quality diagnostic tic", which is intended to diagnose the health status of bearings. It is carried out when CNC does not perform cutting and only idles at high speed; The third is "spindle collision detection", which is used to detect the spindle collision. When the vibration wave pattern meets some default conditions, it is judged that the collision has occurred, and the spindle movement is stopped immediately.
The above situations 1 and 2 are closely related to the accuracy and bandwidth range of vibration signals. PLC solutions can capture very little information, which is difficult to help users establish contingency strategies; In contrast, mcm-100 not only has 24 bit high resolution capability (generally falling in the range of 12 or 16 bit), but also can capture high-frequency signals with a sampling rate of up to 128ks / S (generally only supporting 20Ks / s or even lower), so as to provide users with more vibration analysis materials.New business opportunities for CNC machine equipment manufacturers
On the other hand, the cutting vibration monitoring scheme can also create new business opportunities for CNC machine equipment manufacturers. As CNC machine equipment suppliers are exposed to a large amount of vibration information, once combined with big data analysis, they have a more thorough understanding of the correlation between signal changes and machine failures. CNC machine equipment suppliers can make good use of the accumulated knowledge assets, give birth to value-added services, and even adjust their business model from selling out equipment to selling machine operation hours, Establish long-term stable income. According to Linghua technology, the operator of PC based cutting vibration monitoring scheme, the vibration monitoring scheme has entered the landing stage and has been adopted by various well-known CNC tool machine manufacturers, and its demand has increased significantly in 2017, which shows that both CNC processors and CNC tool machine manufacturers have increasingly keen demand for CNC cutting vibration monitoring scheme.