Good afternoon,
My project is to create a base station (PC) using SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition). A GUI (Graphical User Interface) on the base station must be able to communicate with a Reconfigurable Machining Centre (RMC). The RMC uses Mach3 software to perform machining. In other words, I want to click a button on a computer that is far away from the Mach3 system and be able to start the process on the Mach3 software and monitor its progress.
I am using Indusoft Web Studio to create the GUI on the base station and I will probably use the Modbus TCP/IP protocol, since it is desired to control the system from anywhere within our orginization.
Any ideas on how I can achieve this? Preferably without having to drive a pin high/low in the Mach3 program (G-Codes).
Thank you for your assistance.
Regards,
Tremaine