"Data with format - behind the scenes of digitization"

After a break due to the pandemic, the time had come again - on the day before the annual seminar "Tool Management in Practice", CIMSOURCE GmbH provided a look behind the scenes of the digitization of the tool industry.

In his introduction, Dr. G?tz Marczinski, Managing Director of CIM Aachen GmbH, explained that CIMSOURCE GmbH was initially a business unit of CIM Aachen GmbH and has been operating as an independent company since 2013. Started in the "CIM era" (computer integrated manufacturing) of the late 80's, CIMSOURCE was intended from the beginning as a "source of CIM". Without data, computer integrated manufacturing would not work.

Boris Kaiser, Managing Director of CIMSOURCE GmbH, hit the bull's eye in his presentation with the title "Back to the future - what has remained the same, what is really new? Using the example of the film "Avatar", Boris Kaiser made it clear that technical progress is sometimes overestimated. Because the prediction from 2016, the premiere of Avatar 1, that the next installment would be enjoyed without 3D glasses, did not come true. Thus, even with the methods of data preparation in tool data management, despite more and more possibilities through artificial intelligence, (unfortunately) little has changed. AI applications in particular require high data quality.

This was confirmed by Dhafer Kallel, project engineer in the area of business integration at CIMSOURCE GmbH, with his presentation "Why harmonized standards?". Using examples from practice, he showed why DIN or ISO standards alone are not immediately practicable with regard to data exchange. Harmonized standards (StOB) are needed to overcome interpretation gaps. Examples of features such as cutting diameter for a solid drill and cutting profile type for a cutter body from the mapping table of DIN4000 and ISO13399 were used to show the differences and similarities between the two standards. In addition, Standard OpenBase (StOB) goes into detail to ensure complete and clean data exchange with tool management and CAM systems. The data structure is maintained and adapted as needed for this purpose. An example: In Topsolid, coordinate systems named "Cutting edge origin" must be defined in a clamp holder for grooving. For this purpose, the values of the corner radii must be derived from the data of the cutting body. For this reason, characteristics have been introduced in the list of turning tools. Another example was presented for HyperMill. Finally, an example was shown where a solution was developed in StOB to allow 3D modeling of a special tool neck shape. This solution was then proposed in the DIN committee, which led to its inclusion in the latest version of the DIN4000-82 standard.

After a short break, Jorgen Lorenzen, Managing Director of Adequate Solutions, explained why a CAM system actually needs complete and accurate tool data and what data is relevant for turning or milling tools as well as for simulations and exchange with the ERP system.

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