Money will (hopefully) become available once I demonstrate my mousetrap is better than their mouse trap. A competing design recently secured a little over $30M in venture funding. I believe my approach will produce a better bottom line for half to two thirds of thst.
> On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds like you have a budget and if you are willing to put up a tilt up > building and temperature control it, you have some money to spend. > There was money to spend on the system I was quoting about 9 years ago until > the DOD budget was slashed, then it all went away. I got Siemens involved > and they had no issues tying a laser tracker into their CNC system. The > router was a 5 axis design. We were using standard Siemens servo drives > connected via Ethernet/Profinet on Fiber optic cable. The actual control > system will not be the big cost for your system. The drives and mechanical > system/gantry and building will be much more costly. The laser tracker was > some serious cash as well, but not much compared to the building and gantry > and framework. Siemens had all of the CAM software required as well. > > It can be done. All of the technology existed 9 years ago. But there is > nothing cheap about it. > If you are really going to do this, you might want to make sure you have > flexibility designed into the system so you can do multiple processes with > your system. Welding, cutting, routing, etc. Being close to a waterway > might be a good idea as well. Huge things don't fit on semi trailers very > well. > > Dave > >> On 8/23/2017 12:19 PM, Rick Gresham wrote: >> The building will likely typical concrete tilt-up or something similar. The >> system will have to track/control position in real time. Collisions will be >> very expensive so redundant systems are easily justified. It may need some >> sort of collision avoidance system as a back up, too. If the crosses some >> boundary, everything stops. Stoppages are not a big problem, bumps in the >> dark are. >> >> I've wondered about redundant control systems but haven't come across any >> information yet. Anyone remember the triple Tandem non-stop systems NASA >> used? Three fault-tolerant systems running in parallel. If they came up >> with different results, it was odd-man-out. Probably don't need to go that >> far for this application unless something available off the shelf affordably. >> >>> On Aug 23, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> There are many ways to measure position. With something this big and >>> expensive I would suggest some redundancy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
