Production Counts

PRODUCTION holds two numbers that answer two different questions: how this job is going, and what this machine has done since it was built.

Current job

8 / 23 is parts made against parts wanted. The count goes up when a program reaches M02 or M30, a real program end, not a block run from MDI. A run you reset out of does not count.

• REQUIRED is the target. Type the number you are making.
• RESET COUNT clears the parts made, back to zero.

The two are separate on purpose: setting a new target does not clear the parts you have already made, and resetting the count does not lose the target you typed.

Machine record

This is the machine’s odometer, and it is not resettable. RESET COUNT is the job counter only; nothing on this screen clears the record.

Reading	Is
Cutting time	hours with the tool actually in the cut
Run time	hours with a program running
Control on	hours the control has been powered
Parts total	every part this machine has made
In service since	the day it started counting

Cutting time against run time is how the machine spends its day: run time includes every rapid, tool change and dwell, cutting time does not.

Where to go next

• Status Monitor: the same job, seen from across the shop.