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GF Machining Solutions AG Interview

By 07.10.2024January 7th, 2025Partner News

umati part­ner insights: Focus on inter­faces, innov­a­tions and digit­al developments!

Why is your com­pany an umati part­ner and what advant­ages do you see?

„umati is the right way to ease con­nectiv­ity of col­lect­ing Data with a com­mon lan­guage (=Struc­ture of the Data).”

 

How do you integ­rate the umati inter­faces into your machines/devices/components/software and what advant­ages does this bring for your customers?

„Our Digit­al team does have expert who devel­ops our GFMS OPC UA frame­work. Whitin the frame­work, we imple­men­ted the Data mod­el “umati machine tool” con­tain­ing Stack­lights, machine inform­a­tion, Pro­duced Parts. Our dif­fer­ent tech­no­logy units such as Milling, EDL, Laser, Addit­ive, Auto­ma­tion are imple­ment­ing the Frame­work at the machines level.
The advant­age to the cus­tom­er is to get a “com­mon” set of Data with a same stuc­ture. Means a real plug & play way of con­nect­ing machines to 3rd party soft­ware (SCADA, MES, ERP) with almost no engin­eer­ing hours of integration.”

 

What innov­a­tions and new products will you be present­ing at the trade fair in this regard?

„A new innov­at­ive soft­ware called FORM eCAM who is link­ing the parts and elec­trode design to the pro­duc­tion at the machine level. New Digit­al Plat­form My rCon­nect with new fea­tures as a Digit­al Ser­vice to our cus­tom­ers. On the machines side, new Laser S 500 machine, new Milling and EDM machines.”

 

What devel­op­ments do you see for the future of digit­al­isa­tion in mech­an­ic­al engin­eer­ing and the man­u­fac­tur­ing industry? And how can umati help with this?

„Sus­tain­ab­il­ity is becom­ing more and more import­ant a is part of the GF’s busi­ness and copor­ate cul­ture. We devel­op with­in our Data Mod­el the meas­ur­ment of the power con­sum­tion of a machine and it’s com­pon­ent (Chiller, chip Man­age­ment, Com­pressed Air, Axis, etc.…).”