the limitations be reached (See setting 84).
The second page is the Tool Life page. On this page there is a column called
“Alarm”. The programmer can put a value in this column, causing the machine
to stop once the tool has been used that amount of times.
Tool Management Introduction
Advanced Tool Management (ATM) allows the programmer to setup and ac-
cess duplicate tools for the same or a series of jobs. The ATM page is located
in the Current Commands mode (Press Current Commands button and page
up once). A sample of the ATM screen follows; the screen has “TOOL GROUP”
in the title.
Duplicate or backup tools are classied into specic groups. The programmer
species a group of tools instead of a single tool in the G-code program. ATM
will track the usage of individual tools in each tool group and compare it to user
dened limits. Once a limit (e.g. number of times used, or tool load) has been
reached the mill will automatically choose one of the other tools in the group
the next time that tool is needed.
To activate ATM, make sure that Setting 7 (Parameter lock) is off and press E-
stop. Under Parameter 315, bit 28, change the value from “0” to “1” and press
F4 to switch between windows. Use the cursor keys (left, right, up, down) to
move to different items inside the active window. Pressing the Enter key will
select, modify or clear values in each item depending on the selection.
The bottom left corner displays simple help information for selected items.
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