OnTakt Machine Setup

Adding a machine

Navigate to the Machines page by clicking the link in the top navigation bar.
Right-click in the empty space at the bottom of the page and click"Add machine".
Enter a unique name for the new machine and click Create.
Click the name of the machine in the cards view and then click Edit.
Scroll down to the Setup section.
The most important setup step is the NC URL. This is the IP address and port that OnTakt will use to get machine status and part production data. See Network Setup below for more information.
If the machine is equipped with a TMAC unit from Caron Engineering, also enter the IP address of the TMAC unit so that OnTakt can track events generated by TMAC. If the machine is also equipped with AutoComp from Caron Engineering, check the box labeled AutoComp Support.
Click Save Changes.

Machine systems

OnTakt can provide more detailed information about machine alarms when the machine is configured with its control type.

In OnTakt, a "system" refers to the software running on a machine's control.

Setting a machine's system

Navigate to the Machines page
Click the name of the machine to configure times for in the cards view and then click Edit
Scroll down to the Setup section
Choose a system form the dropdown list. If the correct system is not listed, choose the option to leave it blank.
Click Save Changes

Customizing the system definition

If your machine is configured with additional alarms or your machine system was not available in the list, you can define your own alarms.

Navigate to the Machines page
Click the name of the machine to configure times for in the cards view and then click Edit
Scroll down to the Setup section.
Click Customize
In the window that appears, click Add Row to create a row in the alarm definitions table.
Enter how the machine control reports the alarm (the text that OnTakt currently shows for the alarm) in the Reported alarm text column and the detailed message you would like to see instead in the Custom alarm message column.
If you have multiple alarms to add, insert more rows and add each one. Use the delete button to remove rows.
When you are done, click OK, then scroll down and click Save Changes

Customization import/export

To copy alarm definitions from an external source or between machines, you can download the alarm definition table as a TSV (tab-separated value) file and import that file into another table.

Importing will add new entries and replace the messages of entries where the alarm text matches, but will not delete existing entries.

To import from another source, make sure you have a TSV file formatted like this:

ReportedAlarmText1\tCustomAlarmMessage1\n
ReportedAlarmText2\tCustomAlarmMessage2\n
...

(where \t is a tab character and \n is a newline character)

Click Import at the bottom of the alarm definition edit window, choose the file, click OK, then scroll down and click Save Changes.

To export the alarm definition table to a file on your computer, click Export at the bottom of the alarm definition edit window. This file can then be imported to another machine or saved as a backup.

Supported features

System	Model	Cycle state	Part count	Emergency stop	Program name	Alarms	Variables	Feed rate override	Active tool (Proxy 2.7.11+)
FANUC FOCAS		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓¹	✓	✓
Haas Q-Commands	Haas CNC	✓	✓		✓		✓¹		✓
Keyence	MD-X		✓		✓	✓
MTConnect	DMG MORI	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
	Haas CNC	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓²	✓²	✓	✓
	Mazak	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓³
	Okuma OSP	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
OPC-UA	Siemens SINUMERIK 840d sl	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓¹	✓	✓
XMC	Generic	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

¹ Only variables used in OnTakt are read from the control, including:

Program load variable
Machine part count variable
Process part count variable
Process display variable
Process mapped variables

² Haas controls must have software version 100.20.000.1200 or newer for full MTConnect functionality.

³ MAZATROL controls must have MTConnect schema version 1.4 or newer to report the active tool.

Network setup

Machine Setup tells OnTakt where to connect to retrieve information from machine controls and TMAC units.

NC URL: this is the protocol, IP address, and port of the machine control.

For controls using MTConnect, see MTConnect.
For FANUC controls using FOCAS, see FANUC FOCAS.
For Siemens SINUMERIK controls with OPC-UA, see Siemens SINUMERIK 840d sl.
Even if the machine type is not listed, it still may work via XMC. See XMC OnTakt Integration for more information.

How to set up machine IP addresses:

On the Ontakt Machines Tab, click the name of the machine on the card you want to set the IP address up for.
Click "EDIT."
Go to the SETUP tab.
Under the NC connection window, enter the desired NC URL you want to set for the machine. Make sure you follow the format provided.
Click OK.

TMAC URL: this is the protocol, IP address, and port of the Caron MTConnect Adapter that is serving MTConnect XML data. The format is the same as the NC URL.

Ignore part counts of zero: certain configurations of machine controls may intermittently report a part count of zero. This causes OnTakt to reset its internal counter and then create as many parts as the machine reports in total once the issue is resolved. This appears as large vertical runs of parts on the machine's production chart. Enabling this setting will cause OnTakt to keep its internal part count unchanged when the machine reports a part count of zero. Only enable this setting if a machine is affected by this problem, as it prevents OnTakt from creating a part when the machine's part count changes from 0 to 1. Added in server version 4.10.21.

Sorting the machine list

The order in which the machines are listed on the Machines page can be changed. Note that the machines list is ordered such that the left column is filled with the first half of the list, then the right column is filled with the second half of the list. On smaller screens, the list appears as one column in this same order.

To rearrange machines:

Drag a machine on the Machines page.
After picking up a machine, drop areas will appear at the beginning and end of each column and between machines.
Drop the machine onto one of these targets.
The page will refresh, and the machine should appear in the new position.

Machine notifications

OnTakt can send notifications to a Slack channel or Microsoft Teams chat when machine or TMAC events occur, as well as a daily report of part production and TMAC activity.

Slack Webhook URL and Microsoft Teams Webhook URL must be set up by an administrator in your workspace. This URL points to one specific channel, so different channels can be created for different machines, but the same URL can be used by multiple machines to collect their notifications in one channel.

TMAC alarm grouping tells OnTakt to wait to send a message until this many alarms have been reported since the last message. Setting this to 1 will send a message for every alarm as soon as TMAC reports it to OnTakt.

Shift time overrides

Shift time overrides were replaced by Shifts in server version 4.10.5.

Individual machines can have their own shift times defined, and these times will be used instead of the application-wide times for calculating production goals. Each machine can override both the start and stop times or just the start or stop time. The application-wide time will be used for any time not overridden.

Navigate to the Machines page
Click the name of the machine to configure times for in the cards view and then click Edit.
In the Shift Time Overrides section, enter times to override. The application-wide times are displayed below the entry fields.
Click Save Changes