Bridging Bandsaw Machine via Open API
Cosen’s cloud services allows open API data collection and customization
Cosen’s cloud services offers open API for our customers to easily collect key production information and bridge it to their own system.
Bandsaw Machine cutting history, machine status history (utilization), machine alarms and notifications, parameters used, saw blade usage, saw blade health assessment, motor amp draw, number of cuts performed, vibrations, work orders, jobs performed by each shift and etc. A pool of rich, complete and real-time information are available from our cloud service through open API.
You choose those that are of important for management purpose, and as all data are synchronized time-wise, it helps you make effective comparative analysis.
Bandsaw Data Bridging via Open API
Total data sovereignty: an open technical highway managed entirely by you.
Page Introduction
Cosen can provide API-based access to authorized production data from compatible machines and CPC systems for integration with ERP, MES, management dashboards, or customer-developed applications. Developed using the industry-standard RESTful API architecture and JSON format, our service helps progressive businesses unify separate software environments with minimal friction.
Problems Solved on the Shop Floor
Investing heavily in modern machinery only to find their production metrics locked behind a manufacturer's closed system traps your digital transformation behind severe operational bottlenecks:
- The Proprietary Data Prison & Silos: Many legacy machines operate as completely isolated data islands. Even if an owner wants to track exact capacity, analyze tool wear, or run cost auditing, they are forced to use the machine vendor's generic software, which cannot communicate with the ERP/MES platforms you already use.
- Astronomical Protocol-Unlocking Costs: When a machine shop tries to extract telemetry to build custom dashboards, traditional equipment manufacturers often demand astronomical custom modification or protocol-unlocking fees—a major financial drain for small-to-medium businesses.
- Fragmented Operational Intelligence: Your front-office ERP, shop floor MES, and physical machinery all speak entirely different languages. Management is left trying to guess the big picture from mismatched information, destroying the ability to make agile scheduling decisions.
Available Telemetry & Data Fields
Depending on the machine model, sensor configurations, and active service packages, available API data fields may include (actual fields provided are subject to the latest technical documentation and contract terms):
- Real-Time Machine Status: Operating state (Cutting, Idle, Down, Offline) and active diagnostic alarm codes.
- Cutting Process History: Processing start/completion timestamps, actual Cut Counts, and corresponding work-order numbers.
- Physical Machining Parameters: Real-time Blade Speed, Feed Rate, and spindle motor current load.
- Tool Diagnostic Telemetry: High-frequency Vibration signals and cumulative cutting area for scientific tool-life prediction.
Technical Specifications and Responsibility Boundaries
To secure high-speed data exchanges across enterprise systems, Cosen maintains strict technical specifications and clear boundaries of responsibility:
- Technical and Security Specifications: API interactions utilize standard RESTful structures and universal JSON data formats, allowing your development team to connect effortlessly. Authentication protocols follow OAuth 2.0-based authorization frameworks to safeguard your production data. However, employing standard web technologies does not by itself ensure compliance with every corporate security policy or local firewall requirement.
- Clear Division of Integration Responsibility: The scope of Cosen's API is limited to providing authorized, reliable access to raw equipment telemetry. All front-end applications, reporting layouts, custom business logic, data cleaning, and database rendering on the ERP/MES side are the sole responsibility of the client's internal IT department, software vendors, or third-party Systems Integrators (SI). API licensing does not include custom end-user software development.
Mandatory Physical Hardware Carrier
While the Open API is a premium software data framework, it requires physical hardware to capture real-time floor metrics. Machines must be equipped with physical data collection host hardware (such as CPC-GO or CPC-LITE) to translate raw mechanical current and vibration signals into standard JSON data packets before they can be queried via the API. Once equipped, any bandsaw brand or age can be integrated.
Crucial Distinction: ERP Connection vs. Open API Connectivity
- ERP Connection is a 'Specific Application Solution': A pre-configured setup built for owners who want their machines routed directly into major ERP platforms (such as SAP or Oracle) with pre-mapped database tables.
- Open API Connectivity is the 'Underlying Technical Highway': If you don't want to connect to a standard ERP, but instead want to route raw data into a custom-built internal app, a proprietary SQL database, or a specialized MES, Cosen's API provides the raw digital endpoint for your Systems Integrator (SI) to build upon.
Implementation Evaluation & Inquiry Guide
To help our software engineers evaluate the integration scope and verify compatible API endpoints, please provide the following details when sending an inquiry:
- The target system for data routing (e.g., custom MES, in-house database, BI dashboard, or alert bots).
- Required data fields and preferred sync frequency (e.g., real-time per cut, hourly summarizes, daily batches).
- A complete list of bandsaws to be connected (including brand, exact model, manufacturing year, and controller specs).
- Corporate IT network security protocols, firewall policies, or network-isolation boundaries.
- Contact information for your designated internal IT developer or third-party Systems Integrator (SI) partner.