Services · Brevard County, FL

Your Machines Have Data. Start Collecting It.

CNC machine integration for Brevard County and Central Florida shops: controller connections for modern machines, retrofit sensors for legacy equipment, and a data pipeline that feeds dashboards, alerts, and scheduling — owned by you, sized for a small shop.

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Sound familiar?

Machines that don't talk to anything

Each CNC is an island. Cycle counts live on the controller screen, job status lives on paper, and nobody can see the floor as a system.

Utilization is a guess

Without spindle data, 'we're slammed' and 'we have capacity' are both gut calls — and quoting lead times off gut calls loses money in both directions.

Lights-out is too risky to try

Overnight unattended runs could add a shift of capacity for free — but without monitoring and alerts, one crashed tool at 11 PM means scrap until 6 AM.

How it works

Integration is plumbing plus judgment — which data matters, and what should happen when it changes:

  1. 1

    Machine connectivity assessment

    Walk the floor, catalog every controller (Haas, Fanuc, Mazak, Okuma, and the rest), and map the connection path for each — native protocol, MTConnect, or retrofit sensor.

  2. 2

    Legacy retrofits

    Pre-network machines get current sensors, part counters, and stack-light taps. A 1998 mill can report run/idle/down just fine — it just needs hardware that speaks for it.

  3. 3

    Data pipeline

    States, counts, and alarms flow to an on-site database. Clean schema, documented, yours — no per-machine subscription fees.

  4. 4

    Make the data work

    Dashboards, downtime alerts, end-of-shift reports, and — once monitoring is trusted — supervised lights-out runs with alarm escalation to a phone.

Capacity you already paid for

Connected shops routinely discover 10-20 points of utilization hiding in setup gaps, unreported downtime, and slow first articles. On one $150/hr machine, every recovered 5% is ~$15,000/year. And monitored lights-out running on even one mill adds shift-hours of capacity at the cost of electricity.

A local integrator for mixed local fleets

The typical Brevard County shop floor is a mixed fleet — a new Haas next to a 2005 Fanuc-controlled mill next to a manual machine that still holds tenths and still earns its floor space. National monitoring vendors treat that floor as an edge case and quote accordingly. Locally, it's just Tuesday. I catalog your controllers in an afternoon on-site, retrofit what needs retrofitting, and when a connection drops six weeks later, fixing it is a 30-minute drive — not a support ticket in someone's queue.

Ownership matters here too. Space Coast shops live on aerospace and defense work, where sooner or later a customer asks where production data lives. With this approach the answer is easy: in a database in your building, on hardware you own, with a documented schema your own people can query. No per-machine subscription, no vendor lock-in, no data leaving your network unless you choose to send it. The system is an asset on your books, not a line item on someone else's renewal calendar.

What connected machines look like

The dashboard demo shows the destination — live tiles and OEE per machine. Integration is how your real floor gets there:

  • ✓10-machine live status board
  • ✓OEE and cycle tracking per machine
  • ✓The same pattern scales from 3 machines to 30
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Factory Floor Pilot

$5,000 – $12,000

Machine integration with retrofit hardware is a Factory Floor Pilot. Hardware is quoted separately at pass-through cost — I negotiate with vendors, you keep the savings.

  • ✓Single-process factory floor automation
  • ✓3D CAD design and engineering documentation
  • ✓PLC/controls programming and commissioning
  • ✓Safety verification and operator training
  • ✓30-day post-launch support

Timeline: 4-8 weeks · Hardware/materials quoted separately

Guarantee: We define the target KPI before signing. If it doesn't improve 15%+ within 60 days, I provide 30 days of additional optimization at no charge.

Every engagement starts with the free Automation Audit — on-site in Brevard County, written report in 48 hours, no cost and no obligation.

Common questions

What machines and controllers can you connect?+
Modern Haas, Fanuc-controlled machines, Mazak, and most controllers with Ethernet support a native or MTConnect path. Anything older gets sensor retrofits. In a typical mixed shop, every machine ends up reporting — just at different levels of detail.
How much production downtime does installation take?+
Controller connections are configured without stopping the spindle. Sensor retrofits take roughly an hour per machine and get scheduled around your jobs — typically during planned maintenance windows or between shifts.
Can the data feed our ERP or scheduling spreadsheet?+
Yes. The pipeline lands in a standard database with documented schema — pushing cycle counts to an ERP, syncing job status to a spreadsheet, or driving a scheduling board are normal extensions, not custom rework.
Do we need new networking or IT changes?+
Usually just a switch and some cable runs on the shop side. The data collection runs on a small industrial PC inside your network — no cloud account, no firewall exceptions, no IT project. If your machines are spread across the building, retrofit sensors can report wirelessly to the same collector. The assessment visit maps all of this before anything is quoted.

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The free audit walks your floor, maps your processes, and prices the opportunities — 3+ actionable findings, no cost, no obligation.