Jan de Kruyf wrote: > So at the moment I am engaged in trying to set up a proper industrial > strength back-up structure for the solution I have proposed. > In this special case, you need to separate the software from the hardware. With Heidenhain, A-B, Fanuc, etc. they support both at the same time, it is not your worry where the problem lies. A specific version of EMC2 does what it does, and after establishing that a specific version works correctly on your machine, it will not be very common to have the behavior suddenly change. You may occasionally discover some oddity with a new part program that doesn't behave as you expect, and then you need to figure out whether the problem is the part program itself, or the way EMC2 handles that particular code sequence. But, if you are using the same part programs continuously, it would be quite unusual for EMC2 to suddenly have a problem with them. If it DOES, you can always reload the entire software package in short order, and then import that machine's config files from a backup file.
On the other hand, you will need to repair the computer and CNC hardware from time to time. You don't say what kind of motion control hardware you plan to use in this case, but the makers of that hardware would be the ones to contact when there are problems. Hopefully they have some diagnostic programs that can rule in or out whether software is part of the problem. I certainly support my hardware anywhere in the world by email, but not by on-site technicians. So, what I am trying to say is you may actually be asking the wrong question. You may have to explain this to the management layers that when you need support, you are much more likely to need HARDWARE support than EMC support. If you are going to be doing your own retrofits on these machines, it would be quite good for your organisation to develop and maintain the in-house expertise to fix them. This will be much better than a journeyman CNC repairman who's never seen the machine before coming in and trying to fix it. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
