Mazak Discover 2013 – WOW!

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WOW is all that can be said for the Mazak DISCOVER 2013 show.  It was phenomenal.  So well organized, great people, fantastic products throughout, and Memex MERLIN was no exception and a pleasure to showcase to the world.

More than 3,000 people including metalworking professionals from all industry segments, the media and students, converged at Mazak’s headquarters and manufacturing campus in Florence, Kentucky to attend DISCOVER 2013.  With significant emphasis on education, DISCOVER 2013 gave manufacturers direct access to everything they could possibly need to expand their metalworking knowledge and optimize their operations, from today’s most advanced machining technology to the latest metalworking trends to valuable industry expert advice. In fact, more than 70 different presentations took place throughout the course of the event, highlighting topics such as additive manufacturing, improving factory utilization and U.S. manufacturing making a comeback.

Dave McPhail, President of Memex Automation, was on an expert panel that also consisted of Dave Edstrom, President and Chairman of the board of the MTConnect Institute, Will Sobel, CEO and Founder of Systems Insight and Neil Desrosiers, Applications Engineer and Software Developer at Mazak.  The panel discussed how adopting the MTConnect standard will only help improve one’s manufacturing process.  In fact, the MTConnect presentation was the largest draw attended.  The auditorium seats 230 people and the talk was so popular that there was standing room only.  Many manufacturing companies are realizing just how valuable MTConnect is in order to succeed and are lining up to get in on it.

MERLIN was demonstrated on many of the Mazak machines throughout the Kentucky production plant facility for everyone to see exactly how it functions – providing full plant visibility of any and all machines, with real-time reporting. MERLIN can deliver increased profitability and can find more free cash flow from existing capital equipment.  Thousands saw MERLIN and hundreds of representatives from various companies came by to see MERLIN live in action and have professed much interest in preceding to the next step.

It is very easy to get started; pick a few machines that have the MTConnect enabled option on them and Memex can do a remote installation so you are up and running in a matter of days.  See the benefits very quickly.  Call Memex today, or order it from Mazak directly.

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Mazak Booth Screen Tech Center

John Rattray at Discover Mazak 2013

John Rattray at Mazak Discover 2013

Randy McDonald at Discover Mazak 2013

Randy McDonald at Mazak Discover 2013

Dave Edstrom, President and Chairman of the board of the MTConnect Institute, posted a link to his personal blog which raves about how well the Mazak Discover 2013 was.  He has posted some really great pictures from around the show and also mentions Memex: “…Real thought leaders in manufacturing and MTConnect.” (Thanks Dave!)

Memex at Mazak Discover 2013

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DISCOVER 2013 is a Mazak technology and education event that will showcase an unprecedented amount of new and highly advanced machine tools with innovative processes, efficiency solutions, and everything you need to run a highly productive, quality-driven, manufacturing business today and well into the future.

Our feature product, MERLIN, was selected to monitor the entire Florence, KY, Mazak plant.  If you are able to attend, come and be face to face with the magic of MERLIN!

Where:
Mazak Corporation North American Headquarters
8025 Production Drive, Florence, Kentucky

When:
October 8 – 16, 2013
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Some examples of the benefits of MERLIN include:

  • Increasing efficiency from 40% OEE to 82% OEE
  • Finding 100 hours of extra machining time, per machine, per month
  • Doubling the throughput of production
  • Eliminate overtime while producing more finished goods

MERLIN provides full plant visibility of any and all machines, in real-time reporting, with ERP integration and delivers increased profitability and more free cash flow from your existing capital equipment.

MERLIN and it’s MTConnect products are available for purchase via the Mazak parts department.

Some pictures from the show:

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MERLIN on display, monitoring the machines in Mazak’s Florence, KY plant.

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Mazak’s National Technology Center Lobby

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MTConnect President with the Memex team.

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Mazak MERLIN poster

Memex at CMTS 2013 – Wrap up

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Memex Automation attended CMTS 2013 at the International Center in Mississauga, ON.  We showcased MERLIN and had a demonstration of a working, full plant, MERLIN MES solution available, both at our booth and at the Mazak booth.  The trade show was very successful and garnered a lot of interest in MERLIN.

Thanks for all who came out and visited us at our booth!

Dave McPhail speaking about the Factory of the Future

Dave McPhail giving a presentation on MTConnect and MERLIN.

Memex Booth

Memex Booth

John Rattray and Wally Cassell at the Memex booth

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The MERLIN Dashboard on display

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The backdrop of the Memex booth – full of information!

CMTS 2013 – Mazak

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October 1, 2013: The Factory of the Future Today.

The Factory of the Future is best described as an intelligent machine-to-machine and machine-to-management (M2M) two-way communication about how to make more production, and more Income From Operations, in the same work time.

The Factory of the Future is available Today and can be realized within existing plants, however, it requires manufacturers  to:

  1. Adopt open architecture of machine tools (MTConnect)
  2. Implement a backward compatible method to convert the machine tool into a two-way communication device that is capable of reporting capacity utilization in real-time (MERLIN)
  3. Integrate new equipment from OEMs of machine tools, like Mazak, that include the MTConnect option, to enable all equipment to “talk” the same language.

In August of 2013, Mazak adopted MERLIN operating on the MTConnect protocol to obtain the Factory of the Future Today.  David McPhail, President and CEO of Memex Automation Inc., describes in this presentation how manufacturers can obtain increased production and increased Income From Operations by transforming their investment in an existing plant (a 20th century investment), into an investment in a 21st century plant, with an overlay of MERLIN operating on the MTConnect protocol.

To open the presentation, please click on CMTS 2013 – Mazak Presentation, on the right hand side under “Downloads”

Memex at CMTS 2013

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CMTS is Canada’s largest manufacturing event for buyers and sellers to come-together under one roof to evaluate new products and solutions and learn about hot topics currently impacting the industry.

Thousands of manufacturing professionals rely on this biennial event to assess potential suppliers, big and small, far and wide.  There are over 500 companies in manufacturing that are represented during all four days of this event, giving attending professionals an extensive reach, and allowing them to find solutions to improve and/or enhance their operations.

The hundreds of exhibitors that participate at CMTS meet a wide range of audiences in numerous industries.  From engineers to c-level decision makers, exhibiting companies look forward to CMTS to showcase the latest technologies and solutions in the machine tool, tooling, metal forming and fabricating, automation, design engineering and plant management segments.

When?

September 30 – October 3, 2013

September 30: 10AM – 5PM
October 1: 10AM – 5PM
October 2: 10AM – 8PM
October 3: 10AM – 4PM

Where?

The International Centre

6900 Airport Road
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L4V 1E8

Memex will be at booth #7023 in Hall 3.

Memex Automation, the Frost & Sullivan award winner for Machine Monitoring Systems, will have a demonstration of a working, full plant, MERLIN MES solution available.

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Memex will also be showcasing a demo at Mazak, booth #4638, so be sure to check them out.

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