Reading and deleting of tool life data

For the access to the tool life data before the next tool change special commands are available. They are e.g. necessary for the determination of tool life data for a tool of a slave axis during synchronous operation, because these data, like mentioned in chapter 18.2.1 are not recorded. With the following command always the tool life data of the active tool in the current channel is read and sent for any programmed tool (e.g. tool of a slave axis) to the tool management area (WZM).

#TOOL LIFE READ [ <basic> [,<sister> [,<variant> ] ] ] (Read current tool life data and assign it)

(to any tool)

For the programming of the Tool–ID the same rules are valid as e.g. for the command #TOOL PREP (Chapter 18.2). According to the HÜEMNOS-convention a Tool-ID can include 1,2, or 3 tool parameters. Specifying one parameter is mandatory. This parameter is always understood as the base tool number (basic). The parameters of the Tool-ID can be any mathematical expression, e.g. V.G.T_AKT, V.TOOL.BASIC, Pxx, V.L.xxx and so on.

After sending of the current tool life data to the WZM the internal tool life recording is not resetted but continued.

The following command deletes the internal tool life recording of the active tool in the current channel without sending of the data to the WZM.

#TOOL LIFE REMOVE (Delete current tool life data)

Programming example

.... 
: 
.... Standard operation 
: 
#TOOL LIFE READ [V.G.T_AKT] (Read tool life data of current tool) 
#TOOL LIFE REMOVE ( Reset tool life data for separate)
(recording of tool life data during syn-)
(chronous operation) 
Selection of synchronous operation 
: 
.... Synchronous operation 
: 
De-selection of synchronous operation 
#TOOL LIFE READ [T10] (Hypothesis: T10 is active tool of a slave axis) 
(during synchronous operation --> Send tool) 
(life data of current “master axis”-tool to WZM ) 
(for T10) 
: 
.... Standard operation 
: