Kistler X-Y Monitoring System for Product Testing

Kistler has launched an X-Y monitoring system designed for manufacturing process monitoring and product testing. The Maxymo BL XY system offers flexibility and a colour touch-screen user interface for a starting price of around GBP1,200. It is said to be suitable for use in a range of manufacturing processes and quality assurance product testing. Available in panel-mount and worktop versions, the Maxymo BL can evaluate a production step or product test on the basis of a curve of up to 8,000 pairs of X-Y values derived from piezoelectric or strain gauge sensors on the Y-channel, and potentiometer sensors on the X-channel.

The system monitors the process by the relationship between the X-Y curve and the evaluation objects that have been set by entering numerical values or by dragging and dropping on the touch-screen user interface. Up to four Uni-Box, Envelope Curve, Line, or No-Pass type evaluation objects can be allocated for each measurement program or curve to generate OK or NOK (not OK) results. The Maxymo BL is said to provide a range of functions for standard X-Y monitoring tasks. Each evaluation object can be aligned relative to absolute or dynamic reference points.

Two real-time outputs can be allocated to either the X- or the Y-channel and used for simple control functions. Current and historical warning messages and alarms, a diagnostic memory for recent curves and a bar chart for finding the sources of NOKs to facilitate traceability in the event of problems. Password access authorisations for different user groups protect against tampering. The Maxymo BL provides 16 measurement programs for 16 different types of parts. It can exchange measurement data, process values and control signals and allow remote maintenance via Ethernet TCP/IP, Profibus DP and digital I/O interfaces.

Traceable measurement data and evaluation results can be exported for each part via Ethernet or USB. The Maxymo BL can provide the data of the record for a particular workpiece with a serial number from the PLC via bus or from the integral serial number generator. To support the flexibility of the Maxymo BL, Kistler supplies a selection of compatible piezoelectric, strain gauge and potentiometric force, torque, displacement and angle sensors.

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