Connecting Genior Modular (OA) with FAGOR controls

Until now ARTIS’ monitoring solution Genior Modular mostly depended on a PROFIBUS connection to gather controller based sensor signals for monitoring purposes. Within the FP7 EC-Project Power-OM a prototype was realized, based on Genior Modular OA(Open Architecture),to capture controller signals using a second CAN bus interface. The idea of capturing controller signals via Genior Modular with a CAN interface emerged during the collaboration between ARTIS and the control manufacturer FAGOR within the Power-OM project. Due to the fact that the FAGOR controls donot support the PROFIBUS interface, analternative Plug&Play solution needed to be developed to transfer controller signals into the ARTIS monitoring devices. This solution therefore i so fhigh interest for applications using a FAGOR control and requiring the ARTIS Genior Modular monitoring system based on internal or external sensors. Process monitoring helps machine users in metal cutting applications to increase production reliability and to realice automatic tool maintenance actions like tool change according t owear. The exploitable result described here is using the CAN open protocol and provides a CAN open slave interface as a Plug In for the communication with the FAGOR control.The CAN connection provides less data tan the PROFIBUS interface but still passes enough data for standard monitoring using Genior Modular(7sensor signals+single control information). Until now this prototype has been realized only on the Genior Modular OA platform. Product decisión to include this Technology has not yet been taken and depends on future customer requests. The main benefit of this prototype is to make the ARTIS monitoring solution capabilities of Genior Modular available for machine tool manufacturers using FAGOR control CNC8065,not depending on the PROFIBUS interface.