Marposs Launches AxiCheck: Real-Time Machine Health Monitoring Software

On March 31, 2020 Marposs introduced its AxiCheck software package. The software includes a graphic interface that analyzes data collected with Marposs probes, processing it in a graphic format to easily determine the operating state of the machine its installed on.

AxiCheck helps increase production capacity by quickly and accurately inspecting the state of health of the machine, allowing users to identify and correct errors that may impact the workpiece, as well as planning maintenance operations in advance. This reduces the number of reject parts, particularly when dealing with single batches of expensive part production. 

Parallelism of the axis of rotation and accuracy of its center are fundamental characteristics for the proper functioning of a machine tool with rotary axes. AxiCheck takes measurements to determine the reference values on a calibration sphere, mounted on the machine table to determine the machine’s operating health. Designed for use on 3- and 5-axes machines, AxiCheck is capable of monitoring and optimizing the performance of the rotating axes (5 Ax) while detecting any deterioration in the machine’s linear axes (3 Ax) in real time.  It also features warning and alarm messages to alert the user if the measurement is out of tolerance.

Advantages of AxiCheck can be summarized as follows:

• Graphical machine error detection
• Increase in production capacity
• Reduction of scrap and rework
• Visualization of error evolution with alarm threshold for maintenance planning
• Detection of parallelism errors of the rotary axes and centers of rotation of the machine

Complete information about Marposs solutions can be found at www.marposs.com.