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A Customer's Success Story...
ASD customized the software so it would accept data directly from the company's coordinate-measuring machine. With the help of ASD, we boosted our average Cpk by 40%, reduced bad starts on new products and made real-time SPC information available anywhere, anytime. In addition, 92% of process characteristics achieved a Cpk of 1 or greater, up from 60% before the automated system was implemented.

Thanks ASD,
Quality Technician

Federal Maxum to direct tool compensation SmartCable™

A new and exciting application for a custom SmartCable™ was developed for a customer looking to use a Federal Maxum indicator and an inexpensive interface to do direct tool compensation for CNC machines.

The standard Federal to RS-232 SmartCable™ provided the perfect base on which to develop a custom serial output for automatic feedback to directly compensate tool wear by taking data from the Maxum indicator, converting it to standard ASCII data, and incorporating that data into offset "G" codes that can be understood by the CNC machine.

The engineering time for the project took only 3 days, and the customer installed and is operating the new SmartCable™ in full automatic feedback mode without operator assistance.

Mitutoyo to Analog SmartCable™

A recent customer of ours made a request for a custom SmartCable™ that we never thought we would see. Their application required the use of a Mitutoyo Digimatic Scale on a materials handling machine using a Fanuc controller with an analog input board.

The custom SmartCable™ they ordered converted the Mitutoyo output of the scale into an 0V to 5V analog signal for use with the controller's analog input board. The custom engineering took less than 1 week and was installed and working with the system in less than a day.

CDI Logic Plus to Relay Output SmartCable™

A well known battery manufacturer requested a custom SmartCable™ to interface with their production line machines to monitor go/no-go conditions. Chicago Dial & Indicator's new Logic Plus series indicator can be set up with high/low limits and outputs this information via RS-232. This customer asked us to design the SmartCable™ to monitor the RS-232 output for "out of spec" parts and trigger two relays, one for the high limit, the other for the low limit. The production line controller would take the relay output information and accept or reject the part appropriately. The SmartCable™ also passes the RS-232 data (reading plus limit information) to a PC for SPC data collection.

The custom engineering took less than 2 weeks and was installed and working with the system within a few days.