Unattended operation is an important feature of an MMC. Pallets and fixtures can be loaded and stored, awaiting the first available machine. Machining continues through breaks, lunch, and during off-shifts. This allows for minimum interruption of part production, increasing the number of parts produced per machine. This is a huge ROI benefit, allowing you to achieve greatly improved production from fewer machines.

The software allows you to squeeze every penny out of your machine investment by increasing your spindle utilization. The MMC will ensure that machines are cutting at all times, as long as raw parts are available, maximizing your machine investment and part throughput.

Thanks to the scheduling software, the MMC minimizes the time the spindle is waiting on a raw part, or even waiting on a tool that needs to be manually changed. The software knows if there are issues such as tool shortages and will reschedule whichever parts should be produced to automatically compensate, putting a part that doesn’t require the missing component ahead of the part of the tool that is not available.