Hi guys!
So my boss is considering buying another cmm (yay) and we re getting some new jobs that requieres a lot of control in CMM.
So we want facts and numbers.
Basically i wanna know how many hours during a specified time (ex. per day, or during august - december) the CMM is in use. (measuring)
If this is not stored in the machine/pcdmis i guess i would have assign the runtime to excel or something. but im not sure how to go about this.
It would also be nice to have a log thats a bit more comprehensive. For example that i could check during a time period, how many hours the CMM was in use, which programs were used, how many times they were runned, and runtime of the programs etc. Has anyone done this or something similar?
you guys always help me - thanks for ur help - if it werent for you guys i would be nothing
If you don't already have it, some people built a start time and end time then do the calculation and display it on their pdf file.
Others like to log start/end information into a text file so they can 'read' through it to see how much time the machine was in use for a specified date or time period. This will also track down time between runs.
When I was trying to justify an offline license that's what I had to do. Wrote down what program I was running, setup time and programming time every day for a few months.
If you're anticipating an increase in CMM usage, make sure to ask what's the backup plan if your one and only CMM goes down.
Also used the log to justify getting some more grid plates so that running a program and setting up the next job could be done at the same time.
Yeah thats what i need. i need the runtime command and i need to export it to excel or something so i can simply see that ex. between Jan 1st - Jan 31rd the total runtime of cmm was 50hours. Do you have some thread where this is done?
Yeah i need something like that, thats automated.
so i can go back and see that during december month and see which programs were played, how many times they were played and total runtime of the programs
If you are running newer versions of pcdmis you can try Hexagon SFX Asset manager - it tracks usage, programs, ... But this tool should be strictly for operaters not management
You'd probably want to monitor OnProgramOpen, OnStartExecution and OnEndExecution. The OnProgramOpen could trigger grabbing the routine name and write that out to a text file along with the date and time of when the OnStartExecution and OnEndExecution events were detected.
thanks that would be cool!
i just tried to do the script they posted on the link but i get error "Compile error: used-defined type not defined" and then the "PCDApp As PCDLRN.Application" gets highlighted