Parts counter in Winmax

[Captdave]

I have been running parts on a fixture for the past few days and reset the parts counter to 0 when I started the job. Ran several hundred on Saturday then on Monday I started the same program to finish the job and the parts counter showed 0. The only option I have been able to find is on the auto page which only resets the parts counter to 0, not the actual parts count from the last run of the same part.

[glovebox20]

With my experience, the Parts counter on the Hurco machine's are unreliable at best . When I shut down the Ulitmax III & 4 controls, the parts counter automatically resets it self to Zero upon start up. Also, if you need to rerun a certain part of the program again, it will automatically a add one part to your count, and I havn't found out how to avoid that yet. Also, it will only add 1 to the part count and I haven been able to modify it other wise. So instead of calling a parts counter, it should be referred to "cycle counter". I always like stacking the parts neatly in a box so they can be counted easily, or if you have a scale around, weigh 10 or more to get the average weight of a part, then weigh all your parts and dive it out to get your # of parts. Even on the Fanuc OM's that I run, although the parts count works better, I still can't always trust them.

If you just want to add a few parts to the Hurco Parts counter, you could run just the last block (position Block?) over and over again until you get the right count. I have not found the parameter or setting on the Hurco's that allows you to easily set your parts count to whatever you want.

There maybe a way your could merge a NC line of code at the end of the program to add a # to a unused offset and use that offset for your parts counter, but it sound like a lot of work and probably wouldn't be easily seen also. If you could email me a PDF file of the NC programing, I may be curious enough to page thought it and see what I can find.

I know this isn't the answer you wanted to hear, but it's the best I can come up with.

I'd love for someone to prove me wrong though.

glovebox20

[Captdave]

I guess we can't have everything we wish for! Mazaks are great controls even the older models, They even keep up with the part count.