Wow, I didn't expect such an immediate response! These are great questions from all of you. I will do my best to answer them all.
Dung, our system can be as flexible as you want in terms of motion control and PLC operations, but we do not offer a generic one for all control! After all, if you have a knee mill, you do NOT need something that will control a Lathe or a garage door opener. You want a control that is designed specifically for a mill, with tried and true features a Mill operator needs. This is why we have different control platforms for different machines including mills, lathes, routers, gear hobbers, plasma, laser, punch, engraving, and ATC machining centers.
Concerning Linux, our OS has true multitasking ability and is much more flexible and stable than the older DOS release, which will be discontinued shortly. And Linux does not have the problems commonly associated with Windows!
As for the Galil motion control card, there is NO compatability. The Galil is an obsolete motion processor. Our motion control cards are much faster, and offer the benefits of digital fiber optic communication, which means faster speeds and 100% immunity to the noise in a manufacturing atmosphere. Try running a TIG welder next to someone elses control and see what happens.
Al & HillBilly, you are correct in the way we process info between the PLC and motion control card, only because of our dual processor design and use of fiber optics, we do it in REAL time. And your right, we do it just like a major control manufacturer, because we license our products from one. Centroid. So we have the backing of a 35 year old company with over 8000 controls in the field running production every day of the week.
And itegration is a breeze because when you get our control it is 100% preprogrammed for YOUR application. There is no guess work. You simply get a control that works!
I hope this helped!
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