Hello! Request for a price quote from a potential client ended with a revelation to me that i have to find a way to decrease the production cost and that involves also reduction of labor time. It has lead me to thinking, how can I automate putting the part in a spindle of lathe, running the programm, taking the produced part from the spindle and repeating this process. There is a video in http://www.universal-robots.com/Cases/Watch_video.aspx. The second from the top - "Feeding the CNC-machine" is the one.
Just like the video shows, there are 2 elements in such a solution - lathe itself and some kind of robotic arm that feeds the lathe (or actually it can be mill as well). The question is - how can i make them work together? I feel that creating the code, where the movements of the arm are written is not the hardest part. I think that making them run specific file automatically and starting it only after previous task is completed is more tricky. Can i control both of them from one EMC station or do i have to have separate PC with separate EMC installation for each for them? The first option seems to be more convinient, but it raises a question to me - how can i configure EMC to control that much motors and axis? Second option seems more difficult as i do not understand, how can i make 2 separate EMC installations communicate one with other. The result i would like to achieve is that it is o.k. that both elements do not work simultaneously - either the arm is moving the part or the lathe is working. Is there anyone, who has tried to implement this kind of solution? Are there any experience or ideas, how to do it? with best regards, Viesturs Lacis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
