> I've owned this machine quite a while, I know how it works. I'm not new in > the plastics arena as I started moulding in the early 90's. > This particular machine is made for vertical moulding, I can flip it as it > is. It takes me 15 minutes to re-arrange the setup for verticals and it > runs perfect that way too. On a vertical you simply slide the moulds into > place. I prefer that instead of craning any given day. We're not talking 60 > ton or above. This is a 35 ton machine so the moulds aren't really that > heavy. > > A slow PC with LinuxCNC and an Arduino board is way cheaper than any PLC > ECU. If I retrofit this lump _it_will_be_ LCNC. But at the moment I am more > into ripping it up and save some of the parts for a home brew.
I am new to linuxcnc and are just starting to get my first machine running. Are there any suitable user inteface for an injection molding machine? These kind of ordinary robot arms? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
