Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 23:47 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > ... snip > >> This is like fishing in the ocean. You bait your hook, throw it >> into the water and you have NO idea what you might catch. The thing >> on the hook may think you look like dinner. How exciting. >> having some fun now >> Stuart >> > > The description of the show seemed to indicate that it would cater to > industrial purchasers and vendors. Would EMC2 be a good fit for this > show? I have confidence that EMC2 can run complex machines. I'm just not > sure most people in the market for complex CNC machines are right for > EMC2 (yet). > Only a few shops would be interested DIRECTLY in EMC2. I think a number of shops that are fed up with commercial controls that never worked quite right, or were insanely expensive to get repaired might be accepting of a control based on readily available parts at a price they could afford to keep spares on hand. But, they would want an integrator to put it all together for them in a timely manner. There are a few integrators who could do this, but not very many so far. I would not want to get involved at that level - the hotel room, on-site traveling retrofit show. I think maybe there is a place for a retrofit kit-builder, though. The on-site guy orders a bunch of parts off a menu, with everything available, like custom-length cables, connectors that match the motors, etc. Perhaps all the parts could mount on DIN rails or something.
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