Guides and Continuous Learning
Tracking your part counts for better visibility and more accurate real time information than a utilization chart.
- What you can get from a machine card that you can’t get from a utilization chart: VIDEO
- Creating a process in OnTakt and associating a program: VIDEO
- Understanding the blue predictive target line: VIDEO
- Adjusting part goals / targets for the day: VIDEO
- Evaluating cycle times of current or historical processes: VIDEO
- 3 Ways to Count Parts in OnTakt with MCodes and Macro Variables VIDEO
Tracking part production can help you identify when machines need attention much sooner when compared to utilization, which tends to be a metric to compare past performance .
Track macro or common variables in your CNC machines.
- How to set up and track variables in OnTakt and analyze the data to identify the issue: VIDEO
James discusses monitoring tooling and tool changes with OnTakt.
- James, PM Shop Supervisor at Wolfram, gives an impromptu rundown of some of the features in OnTakt that he uses everyday to keep our machines running. VIDEO
Use the tool life tracking module to pinpoint where you are using and consuming tools, to immediately identify when tools are not performing as expected, and to ensure you don’t ever have a tooling stockout again.
Pair TMAC with tool life data tracked and recorded in OnTakt, to easily identify trends, to decide when to look into poorly performing tools, or to identify process changes that need attention.
How alerts and notifications, equipment tracking, and capturing downtime can ensure that all the machines and equipment in your shop are properly maintained to keep your machines running 24/7.
- Alerts and notifications, equipment tracking, and capturing downtime in the Maintenance module: VIDEO
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