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3. Tool Offset (L system)
3.4 Tool Life Management I
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Refer to "3 (II). Tool Offset (M system)" for M system.
3.4.3 Setting Tool Life Management Data
(1) To set tool life management data, set the tool No. in # ( ). Then set the tool service lifetime and service
life count data in the corresponding setting areas, and press the
INPUT
key.
(2) The operations in (1) update the tool life management data display, increment the tool No. in # ( ) by 1,
and deletes the service lifetime (life count) data in ( ).
(3) If a tool No. and tool life management data is set for a tool No. other than the ones displayed, the screen
will change to one corresponding to the set tool No. when the
INPUT
key is pressed once. The tool life
management data can be set by pressing the
INPUT
twice.
(4) The tool No. that appears in # ( ) can be continually incremented or decremented by pressing the
and
keys.
3.4.4 Erasing Tool Life Management Data in Display Screen Units
Ten sets of tool life management data appear in one screen. All the displayed tool life management data
(time-used, time-max, count-used, count-max) can be set to 0 by pressing the
SHIFT
key, and then pressing
the
C.B
CAN
key and
INPUT
key.
(Note) If any other key has been pressed before the
INPUT
key is pressed, the tool life management data
will not be erased.
3.4.5 Precautions
(1) The cumulative time (count) is incremented, even if the service lifetime (service count) is set to "0". Note
that a warning (TOOL LIFE EXPIRATION: X20E) is not output.
(2) For tool life management by time, a warning will not be output to the user PLC if the usage time reaches
the service lifetime during cutting. Instead, the warning will be output when the next tool selection
command is issued. During that interval, the usage time will continue to increment.
(3) When there are 20 offset pairs, the No. of tools whose lifetime can be managed is 20.
(4) The TOOL LIFE screen cannot be selected in systems without the tool life management function. If the
tool life management menu key is pressed, alarm "E06 NO SPEC" will occur and the screen will not
change.
(5) If a tool selection (T) command is carried out during cutting feed modal, the count will be incremented at
that time.