About Accuride Corporation
Accuride Corporation is the leading supplier of wheel end systems to the global commercial vehicle industry. It was established in Evansville, Indiana in the year 1986. The company designs, manufactures and markets commercial vehicle components. Accuride’s business units are Accuride Wheels, Gunite Corporation, and Brillion Iron Works. Its products include commercial vehicle wheels, wheel-end components and assemblies, truck body and chassis parts, and other commercial vehicle components; and are marketed under brand names including Accuride, Gunite and Brillion. Its products are manufactured in facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
What we did together?
We monitored and maintain data collection on a private cloud server to monitor the CNC equipment on the shop floor that are connected and monitored using dataZen Engineering Technology. We made it easy for them to get an aggregated view for utilization and operational efficiency. There are a lot of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies at play leveraging Oracle, MySQL, SQL Servers in tandem along with web services and business intelligence reporting to provide world class operational efficiency for them year after year to address their manufacturing excellence including capacity planning.
MIRA PLUS™, Designed for shops with multiple CNC controls is a flexible, web-based solution that communicates with various machine tools through API. Simple, affordable machine tool monitoring for any API enabled device or MTConnect based devices.
✔ Tracks real-time and long term machine and operator data for one or multiple machines
✔ Allows selection and capture of non-operating reason codes from machine tool operators
✔ No expensive server platform needed
✔ Productivity improvement range expected > 10-30%
✔ Live and historical machining reports included
✔ Network discovery service that connects to multiple CNC controls at once
✔ Adjustable shift status settings for 8, 12 and 24 hrs
✔ Custom integrations into MES and ERP systems possible
✔ Customizations for Tool Life Monitoring, Wear Offsets, available
✔ Data export to Microsoft Excel
✔ Responsive design for iPad and iPhone use
✔ Private or Public cloud available as option