Failure Monitoring and Recovery System During Manufacturing Process

Abstract

Originally designed for industry use, numerical
control (CNC) machines are increasingly present in commercial
and residential environments. This is especially due to the
popularization of low-cost 3D printers and machines with a
similar control system, such as small laser cutting machines.
Most of these machines are controlled by G-codes, however,
open, simple and generic tools for remote control, monitoring
and open management of G-codes sent to these machines are
rare. In the context of Industry 4.0, including remote operation
and monitoring of such machines, such a tool becomes critical.
Thus, this article presents an open and generic CNC device
control software platform, with the ability to manage and control
via web, remote, from anywhere, with any device (computer
or smartphone). The system involves failure detection during
the manufacturing process, remote monitoring of sensors and
even allows pausing or continuing manufacturing or restarting
process from the point of interruption. This study presents
the system characteristics, its implementation and experimental
results obtained with its use with two 3D printers.