Have you thought about Implementing an Andon station on your shop floor? Do you have CIMCO MDC-Max running in your shop already? If you answered yes to either of these questions then it is easier to deploy than you think. What is Andon? Before we look at how, let's take a brief look at what Andon means in manufacturing. Wikipedia defines Andon as: A manufacturing term … [Read more...]
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Getting Started With CIMCO MDC-Max Shop Floor Screens
It's official, CIMCO A/S has released Shop Floor Screens for CIMCO MDC-Max. This useful feature will allow you to visualize your environment and view real time status of your machines. Make sure you have active maintenance before upgrading to version 8.03.00 or newer to enable this feature. This is a video tutorial on how to get started, but before we get to that here are some … [Read more...]
Shop Floor Screens for CIMCO MDC
This feature is now live and available with CIMCO MDC. At the end of March we shared with you the next generation CIMCO Web MDC Client. This week we have some really cool news about another feature that will be available soon, Shop Floor Screens. These customized representations of your plants or departments allow you to see the status of all your equipment based on where it … [Read more...]
New CIMCO MDC Web Client Now Available
As a part of a significant update, version 8.01 of CIMCO Software, the CIMCO MDC-Web client shared recently here is now available to customers with valid maintenance. Not being predictable the developers had a few more tricks up their sleeve and this final version has some excellent added features including the ability to remove the overview bar scale from and to scale the size … [Read more...]
CIMCO MDC Web Client Preview (Video)
Back on May 6th we introduced you to some clean concept images of the upcoming MDC-Max Web Client. The images were pretty stunning, so it was easy to imagine that the actual interface may not quite live up to them. I was recently given the opportunity to install the current build of the client and wow did it not disappoint. Oddly as much as I love how it looks, I was more … [Read more...]
Using Active Directory with CIMCO MDC
System administrators really despise redundant work. A lot of what a quality IT department does is automate and integrate systems to require less input from a user to perform their job function. Imagine maintaining 2, 3, or even 4 different sets of user accounts and passwords. Or worse, imagine not having a user experience be unique because the overhead to maintain it is too … [Read more...]