Machine monitoring, step by step
Practical guides for job-shop owners, maintenance and controls engineers, and system integrators: getting machine state off the shop floor and into the software you already run.
Monitor an older CNC that has no MTConnect
No network port and no data option for the control? Read the stack light and the spindle current instead. Wiring, setup and the state rules, in six steps.
Get stack-light status into Kepware
From a wired unit to live tags: the device settings, the tag CSV the setup app exports for each machine, and checking it all in Kepware's Quick Client.
Machine state into a ControlLogix or CompactLogix
The exact Generic Ethernet Module settings, the UDT import, and the one COP that puts machine state, counts and run times into a named tag.
MTConnect or a stack-light monitor?
When the control's own data is the better source, when a stack-light and spindle-current monitor fits, and how to use both on one floor.
The full details
The guides cover the common cases. Every wiring diagram, setting and register is in the user manual, and the setup app and EDS file are on the downloads page.
Compare the options
See what AndonTap reads on the product page, or how it compares with a PLC on each machine in Why not a PLC?
Try it on a simulated machine
Run the setup app in your browser, watch the state change, and export the Kepware and Studio 5000 files.