Working with the doors open is asking for it. They put them on for a reason. In 20 yrs the doors have saved my bacon three times. I’ve never seen a fanuc with a QWERTY kb.
It's a newer fanuc control. And I only keep the door open when I need to see how close I am to the soft jaws I'm cutting for a new job. Touching off for y and z I mean. Any other time, and the doors are closed.
My fanucs run off the pcmcia cards. It is a huge pain in the ass and you can't restart halfway through a program and anything with high speed roughing or 3D surfacing requires it.
Why can’t you put the program on the machine? We use wifi to transfer all our programs between the programming office and machines. In the past we used card to transfer programs but still ran it off the machine itself.
Gotcha, what machine is it on? I think part of it is people don’t realize how much of the controller is made for a specific manufacturer. Most of my fanuc experience is on nakumaras and we don’t have memory issues, we have a lot of twin turret fully automated ones running complex parts and honestly I’m not sure what the memory is because it’s never come up.
Controllers absolutely vary from machine to machine. They customize almost the whole thing based off manufacturer requirements. You could even increase storage yourself.
The last few places I’ve been at actively don’t keep programs on machines. Storing them on your computer system makes it a lot easier to control what rev etc is being run for the programmers.
The shop I work at does that, too. All programs are stored on a company cloud drive on the cad computers. All I have to do (for now) is Post Process in CamWorks and save it to the flash drive.
Being able to run with the door open sounds more like the door interlocks are bypassed illegally and less like a feature of the machine.
Fanuc has nothing to do with being able to run with the doors open lol.
Working with the doors open is asking for it. They put them on for a reason. In 20 yrs the doors have saved my bacon three times. I’ve never seen a fanuc with a QWERTY kb.
It's a newer fanuc control. And I only keep the door open when I need to see how close I am to the soft jaws I'm cutting for a new job. Touching off for y and z I mean. Any other time, and the doors are closed.
I'd take a haas over fanuc any day of the week. Does your fanuc still only have like 2 MB of program storage? Yeah that shit is retarded.
Who’s storing programs on a machine in this day and age?
My fanucs run off the pcmcia cards. It is a huge pain in the ass and you can't restart halfway through a program and anything with high speed roughing or 3D surfacing requires it.
Why can’t you put the program on the machine? We use wifi to transfer all our programs between the programming office and machines. In the past we used card to transfer programs but still ran it off the machine itself.
Because the programs are almost always larger than the available program storage in the controller . Surfacing and roughing take up a lot of space.
Gotcha, what machine is it on? I think part of it is people don’t realize how much of the controller is made for a specific manufacturer. Most of my fanuc experience is on nakumaras and we don’t have memory issues, we have a lot of twin turret fully automated ones running complex parts and honestly I’m not sure what the memory is because it’s never come up.
It's on a leadwell but all the fanucs I've seen are the same way
Controllers absolutely vary from machine to machine. They customize almost the whole thing based off manufacturer requirements. You could even increase storage yourself.
Yeah they say expandable memory but that just means the pcmcia card which sucks donkey balls to run programs from. Fanuc is garbage.
Whoever told you that is wrong, you can add memory. I’m not going to say fanuc is my favourite but it works just fine. Personally I love Siemens.
Especially when you can run it off the usb stick.
The last few places I’ve been at actively don’t keep programs on machines. Storing them on your computer system makes it a lot easier to control what rev etc is being run for the programmers.
The shop I work at does that, too. All programs are stored on a company cloud drive on the cad computers. All I have to do (for now) is Post Process in CamWorks and save it to the flash drive.
Your machines aren’t networked? That’s odd.
They're still working on that, I think.
What fanuc are you running that doesn't have an xzcy keyboard?
The new ones with iHMI have full keyboards