CNC Gateway

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Data is a integral part of our everyday lives. From agriculture to professional sports, data based decisions drives the behaviors of industries world-wide. Now with the CNC Gateway, you too have the ability to collect and analyze the data that is crucial to your business operation. The CNC Gateway's sole purpose is to collect data from your industrial machines. It is pre programmed to either gather data from Haas machines over serial port, or to monitor digital I/O signals from any CNC machine. Typical I/O signals to monitor would be power on, cycle start, feed hold, alarm and piece count. With these few inputs, you will be able calculating OEE percentage in no time.  

What's in the box

CNC Gateway box

110V 10' power cord

Serial connectors with 10' cable

M12 8pin connector with 10' cable and flying leads

Terminal blocks

Installation

Mount the CNC Gateway box in a central location of 110V power, an ethernet connection to your database, and easy access to the machine's control cabinet.  

1. If your machine is equipped with a serial port for data communication (e.g. Haas), plug the serial cable into the machine and into the bottom of the CNC Gateway box. The final step is to plug in the ethernet port and the power cord in the bottom of the box. Confirm that the breaker is on, and installation is complete.

2. If your machine does not have a serial port for data communication, you will use the 8 pin connector and terminal blocks. With the electrical schematic drawings of the machine, locate the wires of the inputs that you would like to monitor. Add an additional wire in at a termination point of the input, or cut and splice the input wire and solder an additional wire in. Mount terminal blocks inside your machine, and bring this new wiring into the terminal blocks. Now land the flying leads of the 8 pin connector on the opposite side of the newly installed terminal blocks. Plug the 8 pin cable into the bottom of the CNC Gateway box. The final step is to plug in the ethernet port and the power cord in the bottom of the box. Confirm that the breaker is on, and installation is complete.   

How it works

Each time an input is fired, the RS232 cable or the newly installed wiring sends a signal to the PLC inside the CNC Gateway box. In turn, the PLC sends a signal to the Ignition Gateway through the ethernet cable connected to your plant network. The Ignition Gateway records a transaction and sends it to the Ignition server. As the server fills up with transactions, you can begin to build custom screens and reports in Ignition to show the efficiency of your machine.