Cincom Inks New Global Partnership with Memex Automation for Machine Tool Monitoring

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Cincom Systems of Australia – Cincom Systems has entered into a strategic, global co-operative marketing agreement with Memex Automation to deliver an enhanced ERP solution that adds the productivity improvements offered by Memex’s MERLIN real-time industry machine monitoring and control technology to Cincom Total.

Cincom Total is an enterprise resource planning system built with Microsoft Dynamics AX that is powerful enough to take on some of the most complex supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, fulfillment and service tasks.

Dave Schwarber, managing director of Cincom’s Business Manufacturing Solutions division based in Cincinnati, OH comments MERLIN helps unite islands of unconnected productivity information on the manufacturing shop floor. As a Microsoft Dynamics Global Strategic Partner for Manufacturing, Cincom is keen to introduce MERLIN’s real-time machine connectivity to Cincom Total’s worldwide community of Microsoft Dynamics AX users running complex enterprises.

Dave McPhail, President and CEO of Burlington, ON-based Memex Automation explains Memex Automation is highly motivated to promote Cincom Total to MERLIN’s global customer base, adding that Cincom offers 45 years of expertise in some of the most complex manufacturing challenges in the world, such as aerospace and defence. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, Cincom Total transforms complexity into sustainable competitive advantage for global manufacturers.

Memex Automation’s flagship product MERLIN is a Manufacturing Execution System application that tracks manufacturing operations bi-directionally from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) work order to each machine’s detailed operations. MERLIN connects to all machines on the shop floor using various protocols, MTConnect adapters or network connectivity devices. It measures capacity utilization and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics, and tracks up to the second detail about every event at a machine, all automatically.

Being the only end-to-end ERP/CRM solution built on Microsoft Dynamics AX, Cincom Total ERP gives manufacturers the flexibility they need to manage complexity and be successful. Microsoft Dynamics AX helps meet the enterprise-level challenges of wide-scale manufacturing ERP deployments while the familiar Microsoft interface minimizes training and assures adoption.

Cincom Total ERP gives high-performance manufacturers the ability to anticipate customer needs and changing market conditions to help them win more business, run smarter operations and deliver to customers as promised.

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Dick Morley Joins Memex Automation Board

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Memex Automation is a leader in real-time, shop-floor-to-top-floor technology solutions. Its flagship product, Merlin, delivers Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics in real-time, enabling manufacturers to enhance production and increase income and profits from operations.

Considered the father of the PLC, ABS brakes and the computer floppy disk, Morley is also author of about 30 other patents, winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award (1990), and namesake of the Richard E. Morley Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He grew up on the streets of New York (Queens) before raising a family with Shirley, to whom he was married for 50 years. An entrepreneur at heart, an accredited machinist and operator of most machine tools, as well as a designer of some CNCs, Morley worked his way through university paying for half of his education working in the shop. Later, his MIT education and hands-on experience as an angel investor and member of the Breakfast Club enabled him to help finance and counsel more than 100 companies in the New England area.

When asked why he joined Memex as a director of the company’s board, Morley said, “It’s about time that the CNC machines join the concept of SCADA, integration and automation in an efficient manner. This team brings the tools, the technology and the understanding to bring every manufacturing asset into the modern world. I like Merlin because it is an ideal asset manager that is a technological leap forward, beyond PLCs, which enables machines to be compatible with IT systems. On a personal note, it sounds like fun — change the world, again!”

When asked about the similarities of Merlin to SCADA systems, he commented, “Deciding how to make the manufacturing process better by knowing more is a key element. Although my physics training states that causality is a weak function, it is not a weak function in the factory. I feel as though the difference in the company is not the hardware and software, but knowing what to build for the market. I think because what they do is offer a packaged toolkit that helps make manufacturers more efficient, with an ROI measured in weeks, it works.”

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Real-Time Connectivity Meets Tool Monitoring with Adaptive Control

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November 14, 2013 – Caron Engineering is aligning with Memex Automation in a partnership that links the former’s Tool Monitoring Adaptive Control package with the latter’s real-time machine connectivity and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics.  The new allies stated that, together, they will provide manufacturing plants “unprecedented outside-in and inside-out control of machine tool productivity.”

They added that their customers would be able to optimize productivity by 10-50% and increase profits by 20% or more.

Memex Automation develops real-time shop-floor information programs, and its flagship manufacturing execution system, called MERLIN, delivers OEE results in real time.

Caron Engineering Inc. develops and assembles automation packages for tool monitoring, adaptive control, laser tool setting and machine tool probing.

Caron’s Tool Monitor Adaptive Control (TMAC) system protects CNC machines from wear or damage during production, and collects useful information about the cutting process. In that way it helps to reduce the cost of replacement tools, lost production, and rejected parts by measuring tool wear in real time.

While the tool monitoring function determines when tools are worn or broken and protects the machine and tools from damage, all with real-time data reporting, the adaptive control function automatically adjusts feedrates for each tool, to maintain constant horsepower in the cut with no need for manual adjustment, so the tool always cuts at its optimal horsepower.

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Memex Automation and Caron Engineering Partner UP

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Wells, ME (Friday November 15, 2013) – Caron Engineering Inc., a leader in tool monitor adaptive control, has signed a joint technology and marketing agreement with Memex Automation (TSX-V: OEE) to take advantage of Memex’s real-time machine connectivity and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics. Together the two companies offer the world’s manufacturing plants unprecedented outside-in and inside-out control of machine tool productivity.

Memex Automation’s flagship product MERLIN is a Manufacturing Execution System application that tracks manufacturing operations bi-directionally from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) work order to each machine’s detailed operations. MERLIN is able to connect to all machines on the shop floor using various protocols, MTConnect adapters or network connectivity devices. MERLIN tracks up to the second detail about every event at a machine, all automatically.

“What MERLIN does so well is to connect and monitor machine tools on the outside, and we do incredibly well on the inside of those tools,” said Rob Caron, Caron Engineering’s founder and President. “We offer Tool Monitoring and Adaptive Control (TMAC) for simultaneous operations on even the most complex CNC machines. Our 4,000 customers worldwide can now utilize MERLIN’s interface and connectivity to deliver TMAC-MP’s in-machine metrics from the shop floor right on up to the top floor of a manufacturing CEO’s office, mobile device, or anywhere else the Internet is readily available.”

“TMAC-MP uses specialized strain sensors and accelerometers to both measure and adjust vibration, tool condition, and a variety of other in-machine performance characteristics,” said Memex Automation’s CEO Dave McPhail. “On even the most complex, multi-tool CNC machines, such as Swiss type lathes and multitasking machines, Caron Engineering’s technology adjusts the machine internally in real time.”

“MERLIN now unites that internal information across the shop floor through hardware connectivity,” added McPhail. “Then MERLIN’s software dashboard presents TMAC-MP data along with the more than 400 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including machine tool downtime, rejects, job status on every machine in every plant, in addition to labor tracking. This is the ultimate machine tool automation technology pact that we want to introduce to our company’s 12,000 customers.”

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Dick Morley Joins Board of Directors of Memex Automation

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There are a few inventors who are considered an equivalent to Edison or Einstein. Dick Morley, considered the father of the programmable logic controller (PLC), ABS brakes, the computer floppy disk, and author of about 30 other patents, is one such individual.

Winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award (1990), and namesake of the Richard E. Morley Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Dick grew up on the streets of New York (Queens) before raising a family with Shirley, to whom he was married for 50 years.

An entrepreneur at heart, an accredited machinist and operator of most machine tools as well as a designer of some CNCs, Dick worked his way through university paying for half of his education working in the shop. Later, Dick’s MIT education and hands-on experience as an angel investor and member of the Breakfast Club enabled him to help finance and counsel more than 100 companies in the New England area.

When asked why he joined the team at Memex as a director of the company’s board, Dick said, “It’s about time that the CNC machines join the concept of SCADA, integration, and automation in an efficient manner. This team brings the tools, the technology, and the understanding to bring every manufacturing asset into the modern world. I like MERLIN because it is an ideal asset manager that is a technological leap forward, beyond PLCs, which enables machines to be compatible with IT systems. On a personal note, it sounds like fun — change the world, again!”

When asked about the similarities of MERLIN to SCADA systems, Dick commented, “Deciding how to make the manufacturing process better by knowing more is a key element. Although my physics training states that causality is a weak function, it is not a weak function in the factory. I feel as though the difference in the company is not the hardware and software, but knowing what to build for the market. I think because what they do is offer a packaged toolkit that helps make manufacturers more efficient, with an ROI measured in weeks, it works.”

About Memex Automation

Memex Automation [TSX-V:OEE] is the leader in real-time, shop-floor-to-top-floor technology solutions. Memex’s flagship product MERLIN delivers Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics in real-time, enabling manufacturers to enhance production and increase income and profits from operations. MERLIN has earned the 2013 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership. Since 1992, Memex has partnered with 280 dealers worldwide to provide a variety of manufacturing connectivity products and services to over 12,000 customers globally. For sales information, call +1 (905) 635-1540, email salesgroup@memex.ca, or visit http://www.memex.ca.