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How informed are your decisions? How connected is your shop floor? How high is your spindle uptime? Can you make all three — decision making, shop floor connectivity and spindle utilization — stronger, simpler and better?

With Okuma Connect Plan, the answer is yes. And it’s easy. Connect Plan collects machine tool data and presents detailed machine operational information to operators, shopfloor leads, managers and owners in a simplified, engaging format. It’s an IIoT software that helps you measure, monitor and manage the performance of and returns on your machine tools in three simple steps.

Connect

Easily install Okuma Connect Plan software to enable data collection on the machine tool. If you operate an Okuma machine, connect the OSP control to a server and install the Factory Monitor suite. From there, follow the prompts to enable Connect Plan. Accommodations can be made for non-Okuma controls, allowing shops with any machine or CNC control from other builders to benefit from this solution. 

Visualize

Once machines are online, Connect Plan presents data — machine status, maintenance status, part program histories, command histories and alarm histories  — via easy-to-read graphs and images in a standard web browser. Statuses are accessible from the shop floor, an office, a smart device or virtually anywhere. Remote monitoring enables early anomaly detection in real time, which improves process efficiencies. If you view histories and reports from a factory level (as opposed to the individual machine level), Connect Plan shows utilization and statuses in real time with color indicators:

•    Green means the machine is running within normal limits
•    Yellow denotes an idle machine
•    Red indicates a down machine.

Improve

Visualization prompts action. When you see historical operational results, current machine stoppages and machining reports, causes of downtime or idling can be pinpointed and analyzed. Then, improvements can be made. Machines can be strategically scheduled to take on more work, which maximizes spindle utilization and potential profitability. Decisions regarding operations are also more informed. And because maintenance times can also be visualized with various icons, you can become more diligent with forecasting and scheduling preventive machine tool maintenance, too.

Connectivity Creates Consistency and Capacity on Every Shop Floor

Connect your machine tools with Okuma Connect Plan and open possibilities for machine utilization, decision making and shopfloor connectivity. To preview the features and benefits of Okuma Connect Plan, Connect Plan Lite is available for download today.