Tool Life Screen - Mitsubishi Electric MELDAS 600M Series Instruction Manual

3.6 Tool Life screen

The life management data of the tool usage conditions, etc., is set and displayed on this screen.
The two types of management methods in tool life management are shown below.
Tool life management I
The usage time or number of uses of the tool commanded in the program is incremented, and the
usage state of that tool is monitored.
Tool life management II
This method is the same as tool life management I, but with a spare tool selection function added.
A spare tool is selected from the group of tool commands commanded in the program. Tool offset
(tool position offset and nose radius compensation) is carried out for the selected tool.
When tool life management II is used, the following items can be selected on the Control param
screen.
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320025
320026
320027
In the Tool Life screen, each data can be displayed in group units. There is also a Group List screen and
Help screen. After restarting, the displayed screens are selected in group list when the Tool Life screen
is first selected.
These screens are changed over by the menu key.
Refer to "3.6.1 Displaying in group list" and subsequent sections for the menus and explanations of each
screen.
Screen
T life
(gr list)
Tool life
(grp)
Tool life
(help)
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CHAPTER 1 SCREEN OPERATIONS
Item
T-life manage valid
Tool command mthd 2
(When tool life
management is valid.)
Tool select mthd 2
(When tool life
management is valid.)
Group Group
regist delete
Group Line
Line
No. copy paste
search engine
3. Setup Screens
Setting
ON This controls the tool life management.
OFF This ignores the tool life management data.
This treats the program tool command as a tool No.
The group No. containing the tool that matches the tool No.
ON
in the tool registration data is searched. The spare tool is
selected from that group.
This treats the program tool command as a group No.
OFF The spare tool is selected from the tools that match the
group No. in the tool registration data.
This selects the tool with the maximum remaining life from
the tools in use and not in use in the same group.
When several tools have the same remaining life, the tools
ON
are selected in order of registration No. If there are no
"Tools in use" or "Tools not in use", the tools are selected in
order of "Tools not in use", "Normal life tools" and
"Abnormal tools", following the registration No. order.
This selects the tool from the tools in use in the same
group, following the registration No. order.
OFF
If there are no "Tools in use", the tools are selected in order
of "Tools not in use", "Normal life tools" and "Abnormal
tools", following the registration No. order.
Menu
Line Grp No. Horiz
clear change scroll
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Details
Reference
T-life
group
Help Group
list
3.6.1
3.6.2
3.6.3