Machine Activity Manager/OBD

[[Ch...]]

Does anyone know how or where to find this? I got this from the old forum under Tom's "to qualify or not to qualify" post.

https://academy.imt.zeiss.com/Software/ ... ery_start=

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[[Ch...]]

Okay, I think I found it but I gotta pay for it.

[[Ow...]]

Mine is still in the bottom right hand corner or the screen, a little red box with a picture of something in it.
However, when I open it up, it still shows the next machine care to be in 2015. The CMM is calibrated annually with the Zeiss complete care package purchased.
I wouldn't put much trust in it, even if the date was accurate because it shows 430 critical collisions and that is BS, I'm the only one that runs the CMM and it's never has had a critical collision, never.

[[Ri...]]

Anytime the machine contacts material unexpectedly and red lights, that's a collision. In the controller there's a file with all the collisions and the force of the collision. It's a diagnostic tool for service techs.

[[Ch...]]

Yeah, I have the techs pull the info for me from time to time. IMO, it is BS that we can't access the information for ourselves.

[[Ri...]]

In Oberkochen there are the controller guys and there are the software guys. They sometimes talk to each other but not often.

[[Ow...]]

I guess the service tech's must've had a lot of little collisions then. Seriously, a bump that turns the drives off happens occasionally but, not that much on my end. There are days I don't even run the CMM. I know the air is shut off daily and then the drives shut off, that happens 200+ times a year so, maybe that's what it's recording.

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True, but a critical collision is only one that happens above safe speed (usually 70 mm/s)

An evaluation graph a tech showed me years ago even distinguished between yellow (70 mm/s), orange (>70 and <100 mm/s) and red (>100 mm/s) collisions:

[[Ri...]]

This is part of the MCC software.

As for what is critical, the reply above shows the box of "safe" crashes, and anything outside of that would be critical. It has to do with probe head deflection and movement speed.