My two cents on the "open systems" that is being discussed here is that the support varies from average to poor.
This forum has a large following of MACH users and the posts that fill my box daily on questions and compliants from users of this system amazes me. MACH is a fine system but my point is that there is software out there has been refined to perform one objective and that is operate a plasma or oxy-fuel table. Period.
Once the learning curve has been mastered in any program the sailing is much smoother.
Tech support is in my opinion is worth A LOT and there are several companies mentioned on this forum that seem to not read the posts.
As mentioned above time is money. You'll need to decide as to how you manage your time. Profitably cutting parts on your table or sitting in front of your computor pecking away another question as to how this or that is done. |