On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:17 +0200, Kai Schaeffer wrote: > Hello EMC community, > > I am new here and I am dropping in with a longer question. Sorry for > this, but we are looking for a machine controller and this might help us > to decide if this is the right place for us. So here is the story: > > We are a manufacturer of customized front panels - specialized on small > quantities (http://www.schaeffer-ag.de). Right now we are using milling > machines of the company "Datron". Mostly machines like this one: > > <http://www.datron.de/ML-1500-NEW.607.1.html?&L=> >
Is this document also valid? http://www.datron.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Englisch/CNC/CNC_Large-format_GB_I_V10.pdf Here are some thoughts that come to mind: How much of the conversion do you want to do in-house? What resources do you have for software and hardware development? I prefer to keep EMC2 lean, so I tend to use C to make HAL components to add features and interface with new hardware, and shy away from PLC's (SPS?) and other programing languages. Software is not my specialty, so this thinking may be flawed. Do you have someone conversant in Linux? Do you have someone able to understand and build simple electronic circuits? How much time can be allowed for the conversion? Can you afford to have a machine down and a project manager tied up for a couple of months? I suspect that your machine may use Windows as a user interface and has a separate motion controller which does the time critical functions. Do you have documentation on the subsystems of your machine? Can you post manufacturer and model numbers of your subsystems? -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
