Act 3 control upgrade.... hopefully

[peterson76]

Hello,

My Act 3 is a 1983 and showing its age with lots of random alarms that go away as fast as they came. I could list things all day. I just do not feel that it is a reliable machine at this point and I would hate to damage expensive hardware with a relatively inexpensive software fault.

I am hoping to change the control system to a pc based system. As of now it is all stock drives, servos, and encoders.

The drives are analogue Fanuc models:

A06B-6047-H002 X AXIS
A06B-6047-H003 Z AXIS
A06B-6044-H010 SPINDLE

I have been looking at EMC2. I'm not entirely impressed with it but I believe it could control the drives with MOTENC lite hardware and close the feedback loop with EMC2. Am I correct?

Will MACH3 close the feedback loop with the DSPMC/IP or MOTENC lite?


Anyways, I'm not in a big rush. Any help, info, or advice from somebody with experiance would be great appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric

[Algirdas]

two notes:
1. Okuma software is built that way:
* first You have alarm, that task "xxx1" failed.
* next the task "xxx1" is executed.
* alarm is canceled after confirmation of success.
that way is only proper way to build programs, and we know, what we have with opposite philosophy as microsoft does.
You have a lot of quickly wanishing alarms that way. Don't worry.
2. It's really difficult to find proper replacement for Okuma control. A lot of high tech companies in post-Soviet area does that, but it doesn't solve the problem. It's the task to build up new machine control on the old harware.