the global premium metal working equipment and services provider QUARTERLY 2020 VOLUME 12 ISSUE 45 AXILE ART™ – the Smart Monitoring System Makes a Tremendous Success in Innovation CONTENTS From the Publisher 02 03 Newsroom AXILE ART™ - the smart Monitoring System Makes a Tremendous Success in Innovation R&D Zone 06 Interpretation of Automobile Industry Quality System 11 Global Outlook Work with Robots Application 14 TNC Functions Practical 16 Distributor Transtec in France: top service quality for high-tech machines Product 18 AXILE DC12 20 Event Visit by Delegation from MOEA for Smart Manufacturing Solution Key Component 22 Blue Laser Technology: Setting the standard in on-machine tool measurement 24 FAQ HEIDENHAIN PLC Setup procedure Taiwan Panorama 26 Taichung Budokan Martial Arts Hall Publisher: Paul Chang | [email protected] Subscription: Buffalo Machinery Co. Ltd. Editor: Iris Chen | [email protected] 56, Lane 318, Desheng Road, Daya District,Taichung City 428-46, Taiwan Editorial board: Paul Chang | Iris Chen | Juan Martin TEL: +886-4-25 60 37 59 FAX: +886-4-25 60 37 69 | Kelly Chuang | Lin Chiang www.buffalo-machinery.com Layout and typesetting: Gina Huang Printing: Treasure Map Advertising Corp. Article contribution is welcome! BREAKTHROUGH welcome submission from all fields of machine tool industry related. BREAKTHROUGH is committed to prompt evaluation and publication of submitted articles. Company profiles, production experience, feedback of using AXILE and MICROCUT products are the most valuable article to share with “BREAKTHROUGH” readers. Please send the article and pictures (if any, images resolution in 300 dpi or above) to the local agent or email to [email protected] Copyright © 2020 Buffalo Machinery Co., Ltd. All right reserved. No portion of this publication covered by the copyright herein may be repoduced in any form-graphic, electronic, mechanical, photocopying without the written permission of the publisher. The opinions expressed by contributors and advertisers and editor, and both take no responsibilities for any false claims or erroneous information. Contents 01 From the Publisher It's pleased to share the awards winning news of the newly From all the economic data analysis, we understand that developed smart monitoring system, the ART™ which you may 2019 was a hard time for the machine tool industry and 2020 already read in our last e-News, and you can also read the has no optimistic prediction but stably minor growth may be report in Newsroom of this issue. seen. At this critical time in the global economic instability, service quality has become very important to all the clients. The functions of ART™ System has been received patents in In order to provide good quality service to our customers, Taiwan, USA, EU, Korea, Russia and China. I strongly recommend Buffalo Machinery not only offers our clients with ART™ the AXILE users especially in the aerospace industry and System to reduce the inventory and service cost and to improve automation production line to use the ART™ System which will productivity but also enhances the functionalities of our ME assist clients in sales, management and service efficiently. office in Europe. To provide better service in Europe markets, ME office offers installation and maintenance service for The major purposes of this intelligent monitoring ART™ System machines delivery to European countries. I do hope this add on are the wearing components monitoring, components lifetime service can facilitate our customers with rapid responses to the estimation, and machine energy monitoring which will facilitate service cases in the area. the machines to work 24/7 without unexpected downtime and to ensure the machines are always ready when need. When We do believe our value of “Quality and Service Build our the ART™ System connects with users’ intelligent ERP or IT Business”, with the efforts we have made in service excellence system which will automatically send the requests to users’ and machine quality improvement, and together with the suppliers for re-stocking and in-time service arrangement support of our global distributors, I do consider that the aim without any delay. The visual data platform of ART™ System to be one of global major premium machine tool providers is is ready for the users to check the connected machines status foreseeable. at any time and any location. In the meantime, the setup of ART™ System follows OPC-UA client-server communication Dr.Paul Chang and is one of the partners of VDW umati (universal machine Feb 2020 tool interface) which allows our clients to connect AXILE ART™ System integrative machine tool to customer-specific IT infrastructures and ecosystems without any difficulty. The ART™ System is definitely one of the best solutions for the The President of Buffalo Machinery, sales and management. A Smart Machining Technology and Industry 4.0 device provider 02 BREAKTHROUGH Newsroom AXILE ART™ – the Smart Monitoring System Makes a Tremendous Success in Innovation Award-winning ART™ System aims to develop the intelligent automation with machine reliability, predictive maintenance and energy management Buffalo Machinery is honorable to share the outcome of its “Taiwan Excellence Award” is hosted by Ministry of Economic R&D efforts in innovation especially in mechatronics field. The Affairs. Every year, all candidates are evaluated by four major feedback and talks Buffalo had with the markets confirmed categories of “R&D”, “Design”, “Quality” and “Marketing” to that Buffalo is moving in the right direction. At the end of 2019, identify outstanding products that offer “Innovative Value” AXILE ART™ System has been an award-winner in many award while satisfying the key criterion of being “made in Taiwan”. entries, not only in Taiwan but in global market. As it is right The 30 nominees for gold and silver award among the 418 at the generation of Industry 4.0, fulfill its requirement and excellence award recipients were evaluated again by the juries upgrading products to stay competitiveness and to increase the from Taiwan, German, Japan, United Kingdom and America. profitability are the top priority. ART™ by Buffalo Machinery is a great application which meets the Industry 4.0 requirement and the total solution for intelligent machines and reliable automation. With the core functions of machine reliability, failure predictability, and intelligent automation, AXILE ART™ system can always working 24/7 without unexpected downtime. The most important is that ART™ provides 2 weeks’ notice to the user prior to the machine failure, so the user can always arrange the maintenance or re- stocking just in time. If the ART™ system is connected with the company's intelligent ERP or IT System which can automatic send the request to the suppliers for the consumable material re-stocking. Buffalo Machinery believes that with the ART™ system, the organization can not only increase the productivity, Congratulations to AXILE ART™ System for the but reduce the service cost, service time and inventory. GOLD Buffalo Machinery has been researching the relevant Buffalo Machinery is honorable to announce that ART™ system, technology of i4.0 since it was first released in 2013 by the the self-developed intelligent automation solution won “2020 Germany. Winning the “Taiwan Excellence Gold Award” is a Taiwan Excellence Gold Award”. “Taiwan Excellence Award” has great encouragement to the company especially in R&D field. been known as “Oscar Award” of Taiwan Industry since 1993. Buffalo Machinery believes intelligent automation is going to This has been the 2nd GOLD for Buffalo Machinery, the first be an important technology, the ART™ system supports AXILE GOLD was the 5X simultaneous machining center MCG-5X in machines to ensure the client to upgrade their production 2016. There are 240 enterprises with 418 products won “2020 line. The machine failure prediction is the key to promise 24/7 Taiwan Excellence Award”, and only 10 elite products have the production has become possible and the client can be more glory for the GOLD. competitive and raise their profit margin. Newsroom 03 The visual data platform is ready for users to check with connected machine status via NC controller screen, PC, and any mobile device It would be beneficial to keep abreast of development in ART™ System in AXILE machines can enhance the core value Industry 4.0, and ART™ is developed to adapt to it. As an of high-end high-speed machine tools and help organizations Industry 4.0 product and service provider, Buffalo Machinery increase business profit. will keep the direction of innovation and move forward always. Buffalo has launched premium brand, AXILE to target the high- 26th Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award end high-speed machine tool market in 2017, and successfully expands its market share in the 5-axis machine market. Buffalo Buffalo Machinery is honorable to announce that its self- is honorable to receive the 26th Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award developed Smart Monitoring Device, ART™ System, which won and will continue working on i4.0 technology and service the 26th Taiwan SMEs Innovation Award and has become one development and bring maximum profit to clients. of 37 recipients of this award. AXILE has won this innovation award for 2 consecutive years which shows that Buffalo continues making technical progress in the era of Industry 4.0 and brings innovative technology to the market. As the Industry 4.0 technology and service provider, Buffalo focuses on i4.0 technology development and high-end machine tool optimization. Smart Monitoring Device-ART™ System, the award-winning product, is the i4.0 smart technology application for high-end, high-speed machine which is ready to adapt to Industry 4.0 automated production line. It is developed to optimize the automated production with high reliability, energy efficiency and production control. It also prepares high-tech interfaces for the manager, operator, and service to easy access the machine data, practicing the predicative maintenance, decision making facilitation, and automatic restocking.