jFRX: The new platform for digitization of machine data

An important innovation presented by MCM as a preview at EMO Hannover 2019 is the jFRX and jNODE FR solutions, able to collect and process the data that the machine tool generates through the different on-board sensors. Developed and implemented by MCE – the IT Division of MCM – jFRX is based on the jFMX solution already present in the catalogue and recognized as one of the best supervisors available on the market.

The system acquires high frequency data directly from the machine and processes them for both predictive maintenance and comparison and analysis operations, generating reports on performance and any drifts.

BENEFITS FOR THE MACHINE

jFRX can be installed on every machining centre through the j-NODE FR hardware. It incorporates a set of software modules, each with its own web interface, accessible from the company network through a simple browser, which provides services for direct visualisation and comparison of the different sensory traces.

The interfaces can be immediately used by the operator and/or the maintenance technician and can store locally a buffer of a few days relating to the history of the signals collected.

With this new platform, MCM further increases the level of availability of its machining centres, managing the data acquired at high speed directly on the machine, which becomes capable of predicting any production degradation and proposing the various operating solutions (maintenance, checks and adjustments) directly to the user.

jFRX allows to take advantage of IT opportunities that until now were not available on board the machine. The data is collected, analysed and processed in order to be immediately usable or easily transmitted to an analysis and collection centre.