Monitoring for FANUC-controlled machines.
Which model families we work with, what monitoring gives you on them, a practical network guide for your maintenance team, and what these controls will not tell you.
FANUC controls are the most common CNC platform on Indian machining floors, which makes them the usual starting point for a monitoring project — and the reason a plant's first honest OEE figure normally comes from a FANUC-equipped cell.
This page covers which model families we work with, what monitoring gives you on them, how to get a machine onto the network, and what these controls will not tell you.
| Family | Typical machines in Indian plants |
|---|---|
| 0i-MD / 0i-MF | VMCs, HMCs and turning centres across the general machining base |
| 18i / 21i | Older machining centres and lathes still in daily production |
| 30i / 31i / 32i / 35i | Higher-specification machining centres, multi-axis and production turning |
Presence of a family on this list means we work with it routinely. What your particular machine exposes still depends on its generation and the options fitted, which is confirmed during the pilot.
Running, idle, stopped
Machine condition through the shift with exact durations, which is what availability is computed from.
Cycle timing and part counts
Cycles and counts as the machine reports them, giving output and a cycle-time distribution rather than a shift average.
Alarm and fault presence
Enough to separate a fault stop from an idle stop before anybody has to ask what happened.
Operator identity, where enabled
Attribution for activity, where the control and your configuration support it.
Acquisition is configured by the MachineWise engineering team for the control in front of it. Integration is read-only: no control parameter is modified, nothing is installed on the control, and no program is written. What a specific machine exposes is confirmed on your machines during the pilot rather than accepted from a compatibility list.
A practical guide for your maintenance team.
The failure that costs the most time on FANUC-heavy floors is duplicate addressing. A plant with fifteen machining centres frequently has several that were commissioned with the same default address years apart, and nothing reveals it until two are on the network simultaneously. Assign from a written list and keep it with the machine records.
Older controls expose less
Two machines of the same family bought years apart can differ. This is a fact about your machine, not a software setting, and it is established during the pilot.
Option packages constrain it
A machine specified minimally at purchase can expose less than an older machine specified generously. Worth checking before a monitoring specification is written.
Why the machine stopped
No control reports a reason. That comes from an operator at the machine, in two taps, and it is what turns a downtime record into a downtime analysis.
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