Implementation of a Machine Tool Retrofit System

Small and medium-sized companies increasingly turning their attention towards the fourth industrial revolution. In order to increase own long-term competitiveness, there is a growing desire make production smarter, more efficient, safer sustainable through new technologies. Often, however, existing plants cannot be easily replaced by modern equipment. The reasons for this can high investment costs, excessive downtimes or unavailability of an equivalent machine. An alternative solution purchase equipment modernisation expansion systems, also called retrofitting. Thus, paper deals with retrofit process machine tool, whereby software architecture control unit primary concern work.