Mitsubishi Electric EZMotion-NC E60 Series, Operation Manual

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3. Tool Offset (L system)
3.4 Tool Life Management I
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Refer to "3 (II). Tool Offset (M system)" for M system.
3.4.3 Setting Tool Life Management Data
(1) To set tool life management data, set the tool No. in # ( ). Then set the tool service lifetime and
service life count data in the corresponding setting areas, and press the
INPUT
key.
(2) The operations in (1) update the tool life management data display, increment the tool No. in # ( )
by 1, and deletes the service lifetime (life count) data in ( ).
(3) If a tool No. and tool life management data is set for a tool No. other than the ones displayed, the
screen will change to one corresponding to the set tool No. when the
INPUT
key is pressed once.
The tool life management data can be set by pressing the
INPUT
twice.
(4) The tool No. that appears in # ( ) can be continually incremented or decremented by pressing the
and keys.
3.4.4 Erasing Tool Life Management Data in Display Screen Units
Ten sets of tool life management data appear in one screen. All the displayed tool life management
data (time-used, time-max, count-used, count-max) can be set to 0 by pressing the
SHIFT
key, and then
pressing the
C.B
CAN
key and
INPUT
key.
(Note) If any other key has been pressed before the
INPUT
key is pressed, the tool life management
data will not be erased.
3.4.5 Precautions
(1) The cumulative time (count) is incremented, even if the service lifetime (service count) is set to "0".
Note that a warning (TOOL LIFE EXPIRATION: X20E) is not output.
(2) For tool life management by time, a warning will not be output to the user PLC if the usage time
reaches the service lifetime during cutting. Instead, the warning will be output when the next tool
selection command is issued. During that interval, the usage time will continue to increment.
(3) When there are 20 offset pairs, the No. of tools whose lifetime can be managed is 20.
(4) The TOOL LIFE screen cannot be selected in systems without the tool life management function.
If the tool life management menu key is pressed, alarm "E06 NO SPEC" will occur and the screen
will not change.
(5) If a tool selection (T) command is carried out during cutting feed modal, the count will be
incremented at that time.