Il software che sa ascoltare
It knows how long every machine runs. Even the iron from '95.
For owners and shop-floor managers
There's a CHF 300,000 machine on your floor that works every day and tells no one anything. ERGANE makes it talk — together with all the others, on your own workshop server.
The machines talk. The programs come back.
Shop-floor software for CNC machine shopsOld and new machines, different makes · on-premise
The connection for the machines you already have.
Not an MES, not an ERP. The answer everyone gives you is to buy a new machine: we give a voice to the one that's already there. The owner stops running the shop from memory.
The shop floor, live. Not from memory.
ERGANE speaks each control's native language — whatever the make, old or new — and reads what the machine already knows about itself. No hardware to fit.
How many hours it really ran
Time in cut, downtime, alarms, parts made. Per day, per week, per machine — the 1990s ones included.
Loads, feed, spindle
The numbers the control already holds, read live and kept over time. And while it cuts, how much load that program usually puts on the spindle, measured on the runs before: a measurement, not an alarm.
Mixed fleet, one screen
The iron from '95 and the brand-new centre on the same page, every machine in its place. Even a Heidenhain TNC 640 tells you whether it's cutting, without buying extra control options. That's the thing the machine builder's portal won't do.
What it doesn't know, it says
Every figure carries the time it was read. If a machine doesn't answer, or the control doesn't give a value, the screen says "not read": never a zero to fill the gap, never a guessed "running".
A control that isn't on the list?
That's not a no. We look at what's fitted, check whether it can be read — and if it can, we integrate it: you don't pay for the whole development, because that control then stays in the product.
Why nothing needs fitting on the machine. The control already has a way to talk — the network port, or the serial one. Nobody ever asked it: ERGANE asks. Where there's only serial, we bring the converter. Connecting is an hour's work, with no sensors and no boxes: we hook up to the control while the floor carries on as usual.
Send the program. And the program comes back.
The moment a CHF 4,000 part gets scrapped is almost always the same one: the wrong version ended up on the machine. ERGANE closes the loop.
Every version, archived
Who changed what, and what changed between yesterday and today. Two versions compare line by line.
CNC memory and network folders, one list
The machine's programs and the ones on the server in the same tree, like in File Explorer: search inside the text too, copy, rename. They go to the CNC with no USB sticks, and you can browse the server even with the machine switched off.
The compare is byte for byte. Not "looks the same": it is the same, or ERGANE says so.
The NC editor. You correct, you don't rewrite.
On the shop floor, a program doesn't get rewritten: it gets corrected. Across 439 real edits, the typical one touches 15 lines out of 2,000 — the tool, the offset, the depth, the feed, the speed. ERGANE's editor puts exactly those up front, with a preview and a count before it touches the text.
Finger-friendly, gloves included
Big controls, made for the tablet at the machine. The program opens read-only until you tap Modifica (Edit): a gloved tap writes nothing. And every command can be undone.
Next to the code, the machine
Next to every D and H offset in the program, the value the control holds right now. And from there the program goes to the CNC with the full round trip: send, read back, compare.
Your file stays your file
Open and save without changing anything: the file comes back identical to the byte, line endings and characters included. Tested on 12,419 programs from a real machine shop: 99.92% identical to the byte.
If it doesn't know what a number means, it leaves it alone. An S under G96 is in metres per minute, and the preview says so; G50 S on a lathe is the spindle speed limit, and it stays as it is. Where ERGANE doesn't recognise the control's dialect, the commands that rewrite numbers switch off — and it tells you why.
The path, before the spindle turns.
ERGANE draws the program's toolpath on the part, in 2D. And while the machine is cutting, the real tool position rides on top of it, read from the control, trailing where it has been. Top, front, side — and in 3D.
On the real stock
The 3D starts from the stock the CAM declared, not from an invented block, and removes material pass after pass.
Klartext too
Not just ISO code: Heidenhain Klartext programs get drawn as well, tilted planes included. When ERGANE can't draw a program correctly, it doesn't draw it: it tells you.
It's a view, not a safety system. It doesn't check collisions and it doesn't decide for you: it shows the path — the responsibility stays with whoever starts the cycle.
Measured tools reach the CNC.
Tools and work offsets for every machine on one page. If you measure on a Zoller presetter, you see for every offset the control's value, the presetter's measurement and the difference — and the measurement goes to the CNC without retyping the numbers by hand.
One row per offset
Control, presetter, difference. The row says in words whether it's aligned, empty, different or to decide — and why. Below, the work offsets as the control holds them right now, not as someone remembers them.
First the question, then the read-back
Before writing, ERGANE shows the machine and the numbers before → after, and waits for your yes. Afterwards it reads the control back and tells you whether it matches. If the value on the machine changed in the meantime, it doesn't write and shows you the new one.
It writes offsets, it does not move axes
ERGANE transfers the measured values: in batches, only into empty offsets and never into those of the selected program. Wear is corrected at the machine, and the operator starts the cycle, as always.
Lathes and Heidenhain: compare only
On lathes and on Heidenhain controls the table is compared with the presetter, and the measurement is entered at the machine. You still see the difference.
How long it ran, in one number.
Availability — cutting time over powered-on time — per week, month and year, machine by machine. Under every figure, what it rests on: how many powered-on hours, since when ERGANE has been reading, how long the machine didn't answer. Next to it, the target you set yourself.
It finds the stops on its own
Five minutes and up: stopped, paused or in alarm. You give the cause in two taps if you want — it's not mandatory.
A log that stands up to the auditor
What ERGANE can't see gets written in by hand. A stop can't be deleted: it's reversed with a reason, and stays there, struck through. A new target applies from a set date, never retroactively.
As a PDF, in Italian or German
The report ready to leave the workshop, no touch-ups. And the CSV, for whoever wants to redo the maths.
Availability, not "full OEE". ERGANE measures what the control can actually tell it: times, states, part counts. Performance and quality stay out — we do not invent them. And a machine that doesn't say whether it's cutting gets no figure: better a declared gap than an invented number.
Who's running what. And when it's done.
When the customer calls and asks when it will be ready, the answer is on the screen — not in someone's memory.
Three things we don't do
- We don't command the machine. We read it and we confirm it: no software of ours moves an axis.
- It's not a timeclock. We measure the machines, not the people.
- The data never leaves the workshop. On your server, not ours. No subscription to keep it alive.
The maths, do it yourself.
Taking a program to the machine: 15 minutes, four times a day. Conservative numbers from a real machine shop: the USB-stick round trips, the measurements taken at the machine, the edits made at the control.
Do the real example with your own numbers, in 30 days, on your own machine. A conservative estimate, not a promise of savings: your floor will have its own numbers, and the site survey exists to put them on the table.
How it starts.
One hour, at your place
We come to the workshop for the preliminary analysis and map the fleet: what control each machine has, what network is there, what connects and what doesn't. From that we prepare an assessment of your own situation, old machines and new. Without this step we don't start, and we make you no promises.
Thirty days on trial
A single machine — usually the oldest one. No cost, no commitment: your own data does the talking. At the end there's a straight answer: it can be done, or it can't. And the shop-floor numbers gathered in those thirty days stay yours, whichever way it goes.
The whole floor
If the pilot talks, we connect the rest, put the program archive on your server and hang up the board. Licence per site: the software stays yours.
Who is behind ERGANE.
More than 25 years on shop floors and in customers' offices taught us one thing: no shortcuts and no middlemen. We stand behind work done properly and systems that grow over time. Whoever looks after ERGANE looks after you.
Developed on the shop floor. Conceived, developed and supported by NS Net Source Sagl, and tested in production: ERGANE works in a machine shop every day, across different makes and vintages, against real deadlines. And if something's wrong, the app prepares the package to send us so we can understand the problem: no PIN or password ends up inside.
Already on the shop floor? Walk in with ERGANE.
Anyone selling machine tools, CAM, presetters or service is in the workshop before we are — and the owners trust them. If that's you: bring ERGANE to your customers, we'll handle the technical side.
- We run the demo together, the first time. After that you run it yourself, if you want: connect the oldest machine and you'll see.
- Your share is agreed up front, in writing, and follows what you bring: the customer, the demo, first-line support.
- The customer stays yours. We do the connection and the software — we don't go around you.
Let us try connecting the oldest machine you have. If it doesn't talk, it cost you nothing.
Tell us how many machines you have, which makes, and — if you know — which control they run. We'll tell you what connects, no waffle.
ERGANE is in production today at a machine shop in Ticino, on a mixed fleet of different makes and generations. The case, in full →