Developing an OPC UA Server for CNC Machines

Martins, André; Lucas, João; Costelha, Hugo; Neves, Carlos

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This paper addresses the concept of Industry 4.0 from the perspective of the molds industry, a key industry in today’s industrial panorama. With its constant modernization, several technologies have been introduced, in particular regarding machining equipment. With each brand and model requiring different (proprietary) interfaces and communication protocols, this technological diversity renders the automatic interconnection with production management software extremely challenging. In this paper a methodology to build monitoring solutions for machining devices is defined, based on the main equipment and operations used by molds industry companies. For a standardized approach, OPC UA is used for high-level communication between the various systems. As a key result of this paper, and given the variety of monitoring systems and communication protocols, the developed approach combines various different machine interfaces on a single system, in order to cover a relevant subset of machining equipment currently in use by the molds industry. This kind of all-in-one approach will give production managers access to the information needed for a continuous monitoring and improvement of the entire production process.

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Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing.
Acknowledgements This work was developed under the project TOOLING4G (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024516), supported by Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizac¸ao (POCI), Portugal 2020 and Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER). This project was also financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundac¸ao para a Ci ˜ encia e a Tecnologia, within projects UIDB/00308/2020 and UIDB/50014/2020.

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Industry 4.0 OPC UA Machine Monitoring Computer Numeric Control

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/8885

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Martins, A., Lucas, J., Costelha, H., Neves, C. (2021). Developing an OPC UA Server for CNC Machines, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 180, pp. 561-570, ISSN 1877-0509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.01.276.