Open Platform for the Integration of Monitoring Applications

Process and machine tool condition monitoring are the keys to an increasing degree of automation and consequently to an increasing productivity in manufacturing. The realisation of monitoring functionality demands an extension of the control system. The prerequisite for these extensions are open interfaces in the NC-kernel. Nowadays controls with open NC-kernel interfaces are available on the market. However these interfaces are vendor specific solutions that do not allow the reuse of monitoring software in different controls. To overcome these limitations a platform with vendor neutral open real-time interface for the integration of monitoring functionality into the NC-kernel is presented in this paper. Additionally two realisations of the integration platform for different target systems are described.