Development of an E-maintenance System for a CNC System
摘要
Globalization and rapid growth of network technologies have changed the traditional patterns of device maintenance.E-maintenance has emerged and is widely used in many manufacturing systems.In this paper,a new architecture of an E-maintenance system is proposed,which consists of E-maintenance centre,embedded CNC gateway and CNC terminal.The E-maintenance centre provides the technical support and service for customers based on Internet and communication technologies.The embedded CNC gateway serves as an agent between the public and plant device network,and provides web-based access for the CNC system.A reconfigurable CNC terminal is highly desired in a signal measuring and analysing system,which is built on the top of component and software bus based models.Finally,the E-maintenance system for the CNC machine is implemented and the experiments show that the architecture of an E-maintenance system can effectively reduce the downtime of devices,the responding time of maintenance work,and increase both the quality and the productivity of enterprises.