Reduced Commissioning Time of Components in Machine Tools Through Electronic Data Transmission

This article presents an approach to increase data availability over the life cycle of machine tool components. This includes the consideration of type-specific and instance-specific data of a machine component throughout its entire life cycle. Currently, the provision of the component data for the physical component is only realized by paper-bound data sheets. This leads to growing costs of the component through its commissioning. The presented approach proposes to store data on a RFID transponder attached to the component. In the article, a procedure to generate the optimum amount of data for instance-specific data is presented. This data are measured on a test bench, processed to generate the values and finally linked with the component over the whole life cycle. This enables increasing efficiency of the component by reducing the commissioning time during its life cycle.