b'\x1b\x1a\x19 \x1f\x18\x1d\x17\x16Machine TechnologyAI CHECKS SPINDLE HEALTHBy William Leventon Health Monitoring System includes two sensors that feed data to an acquisition unit connected to an indus-A s with humans, age can take its toll on machinetrial computer for processing.spindles. Over time, for example, a spindle can beThe main things were using are vibration and cur-damaged by a crash, drift out of balance or suffer ad- rent sensors to establish a baseline for the spindle, verse effects from lubrication starvation. Consequencessaid Joe Sanders, sales engineering assistant manager.eventually can include costly machine downtime andThe system uses edge computing and data analytics production of out-of-tolerance parts.So Mazak Corp., Florence, Kentucky, is employing artificial intelligence to check the condition of spindles in some of its machines. The companys new Spindle The Spindle Health Monitoring System (right) displays the percentage of remaining spindle life related to three factors. The lowest of these values is used as the remaining spindle life estimate as shown on the upper left of the screen. The Integrex i-300ST (below) is one of the horizontal machining centers equipped with Mazaks Spindle Health Monitoring System.Mazakctemag.com/cteguide.com13MachineTech.indd 13 2/14/20 12:22 PM'