CNC Machine Monitoring

CNC machine monitoring software is proven to increase efficiency – Typically 10% to 50% – by passively capturing machine utilization, machine productivity, and more real time information data items.

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If you can measure it, you can manage it. CNC machine monitoring guarantees shop floor visibility and MERLIN Tempus measures machine productivity in real-time.

Passive, Real-Time Visibility from Shop Floor to Executive Dashboard

For executives and manufacturing leadership, cnc machine monitoring via integrated cnc monitoring software provides actionable intelligence without disrupting operations or burdening production staff. Using solutions like MERLIN Tempus, machine data is passively collected from CNC assets—across protocols like MTConnect, Fanuc Focas, OPC—or via retrofit hardware, requiring no manual input.

This approach ensures continuity: legacy machines and modern CNC tools alike feed identical, standardized data directly into the machine monitoring system.

Data-driven insight lets managers analyze downtime causes or reject events, refine job standards, and improve processes. Full traceability enables drill-down by shift, part number, operator, or machine to identify systemic issues and eliminate recurring losses.

This fosters a lean manufacturing capability with a continuous improvement mindset—from the shop floor to the top floor!

Where We Come In – Leading OEE and CNC Machine Monitoring Software

MEMEX understands the need to be more competitive and to get the maximum throughput with your manufacturing machine assets.  The MERLIN technology tool-kit and MERLIN Tempus cnc machine monitoring software first connects all machines on the plant floor, even legacy ones without software protocol compatibility, then visualizes machine monitoring in real-time. This allows factory floor teams to measure machine downtime and react quickly to situations, using MERLIN Tempus data to fine tune processes using lean manufacturing techniques.

MEMEX technology helps improves operator productivity and satisfaction by reducing error-prone manual data collection and replacing it with an automated machine monitoring system. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the key performance indicator that drives this cnc machine monitoring process forward.

CNC Machine Monitoring Features

The foundation of the MEMEX smart manufacturing tool-kit is MERLIN Tempus software. MERLIN Tempus is an open and extensible cnc machine monitoring software that enables data-driven manufacturing with zero programming or custom integration. It offers a dynamic, user-configurable dashboard that provides a complete customizable view of shop floor operations using real time information. Like all machine monitoring software, MERLIN passively allows you to measure machine downtime, giving you real time insights into the machine utilization and machine productivity of your shop floor.

MERLIN Tempus machine monitoring connects to every machine in your shop – CNC machines, non-CNC machines, sensors, fabrication centers and manual processes. They are all tied together with MEMEX connectivity tools that allow user-defined reports to be easily shared from the shop floor to the top floor on a variety of Internet devices from PCs to smartphones.

MERLIN Tempus Core Benefits:

Supported Protocols

To access required factory floor data, MERLIN Tempus machine monitoring supports MTConnect, Fanuc Focas, Fanuc I/O link to MTConnect®, OPC and other software protocols that create a software tunnel to real time information. While MTConnect is a software-only connection, MERLIN hardware adapters also embrace legacy machines so they too can communicate with the MTConnect standard.

MTC-One is the newest MEMEX hardware product that allows easy USB plug-in analog inputs to collect, visualize and analyze real-time analog sensor data on temperature, humidity, noise level, power consumption and other sensor-driven data. A single MTC-One device brings the power of edge computing by monitoring up to 110 connected sensor devices simultaneously.

The bullet list below gives you an idea of what can be monitored and stored in a SQL database with MERLIN Tempus.

Commonly Monitored Items

  • OEE metric
  • Machine utilization (machine availability monitoring)
  • Machine performance
  • Machine events (micro-stoppage and more)
  • Machining quality
  • Cycle Time & Count
  • Part Name
  • Part Counts
  • Alarm State Recording
  • Interrupted Cycles Recorded
  • Down Time (machine downtime monitoring)
  • Down Reason codes (automatic or operator or modal)
  • Reject counts
  • Reject reason codes
  • Email / Cell Phone Alerts
  • Feed Hold / Op Stop
  • Feed / Rapid / Spindle Override
  • Feed and Speed rate
  • Product Standard comparison
  • Idle Reason Tracking
  • Real-time analog sensor data

When choosing a cnc machine monitoring system, you want a solution that does more than just capturing machine utilization and machine productivity metrics. Choose a solution that gives you the tools to manage and continuously improve your factory by leveraging real overall equipment effectiveness metrics and integrating with your existing ERP system. To learn more about how real overall equipment effectiveness can take your factory to new heights, click below!

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