Tuesday, August 18, 2009

ESAB PDM tracks cutting system performance

ESAB Cutting Systems production data management system (PDM) is designed to control, track, record and report the performance of a cutting system in real time.

It allows data related to cutting and marking process to be captured and interfaced with existing business-planning systems.

By making production performance transparent, operational costs can be lowered and cycle times can be reduced.

The PDM system has a number of different modules that can be added as required.

These modules include PDM Workshop View, which provides automatically updated visualisation of all cutting machines connected to the PDM system.

It gives a detailed view of current and historical machine processes and performance.

The PDM Maintenance module records wear and usage of consumables while the PDM Event Control database records machine downtime and error messages.

When combined, the various modules give fully automated machine data logging and can plan detailed working orders for each cutting machine to maximise productivity.

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