OpenDATA

We can only improve a process if you have enough information on it. If we look at a milling process, for example, we see that vibrations, milling forces, rpms and feed can be measured. In the area of laser powder fusion welding, we see that a large number of parameters – ranging from the laser output to the temperature of the melting bath – can be recorded.

With OpenDATA, moreover, we can now answer the question of which values are to be measured – and at which locations – on the part! This local resolution permits a fast and practice-oriented insight into the particular process and thus delivers reliable information for optimization or monitoring.

OpenDATA combines positional information from the machine with measurement values supplied by external sensors.
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Your Advantages:

• Precise assignment of measurement values to the part itself
  
• Support of a wide range of sensors (National Instruments interface)
  
• Easily understandable visualization of measurement values

Applications

Temperature measurement during laser metal deposition
As part of a project carried out in cooperation with the Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) in Aachen, melting bath temperatures are plotted and assigned to positions on the part. This allows for a deeper insight into the process and opens up new vistas of analysis and evaluation for the researchers – all of which can, in the final analysis, be used to optimize the process.