Machinery & Manufacturing | Issue 15 | May-June 2024

Additive manufacturing

To help manufacturers improve production efficiency and monitor their additive manufacturing (AM) performance in real-time, global engineering technologies company Renishaw has issued an update to its Renishaw Central manufacturing data platform. Improved additive manufacturing efficiency

Using feedback from sensors fitted to AM systems, the software gathers and displays machine process data from across production facilities, including AM systems. This means that users can track machine status and what jobs have been executed, as well as pinpoint errors and act on them before they impact process efficiency Using Renishaw Central, manufacturers can now capture data throughout the AM process chain, and view machine and process analytics in real-time. The software displays several

parameters including build traffic, job progress and recent build history. Users can also sort and select jobs based on name, the number of runs passed, the number of fails and other parameters. If the machine sensors detect a problem, it will feed this back to the platform and Renishaw Central will display an error message informing the user. Then, an operator can be deployed to fix the problem. Renishaw Central can also provide manufacturers with access to time series data, environmental insights and the results of any

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