TMAC Monitoring Real-Time Cutting Operations on Swiss Machine – Caron Engineering

Wolfram Manufacturing uses TMAC to monitor every CNC tool and cutting operation across all the machine tools in their shop. 💡👏🏼

In this video, Wolfram’s Technical Product Manager, Andrew Aguilar, explains the benefits of using our adaptive tool monitoring system on a #Tsugami Swiss machine.

✅ Protects the machine
✅ Protects the tooling
✅ Reduces scrap
✅ Enables unattended operation

Full Video Transcript

Hey everybody, I’m Andrew with Wolfram Manufacturing in Austin, Texas. We’re using Caron Engineering’s TMAC on a Swiss machine. Here we’re using five power sensors and two vibration sensors to monitor every single cutting tool during this process.

We’re doing that for a few reasons: One is we want to stop the machine as soon as the tool breaks, we want to save tool bodies, we don’t want to misalign our tool gangs or our rear spindle and also we don’t want broken tools rubbing on steel and potentially causing a fire inside our machine cabinet. But even before a tool breaks we’re using these these sensors and TMAC to stop the machine when a tool is worn to alert a user to say, hey your tooling is worn you need to change the tool before it breaks and before we make a pile of bad parts.

The rate Swiss machines produce parts is incredible but it also has the power to make a bunch of out-of-spec parts very quickly as well and waste material. A TMAC wear limit keeps us from doing that. [Music]