Hi everybody! We just finished and delivered the machine we've been working on for the past 6 months to the customer! Our thanks go out to everyone who helped answer questions we've had on this project throughout the way.
It is a CNC plasma cutter that cuts patterns for door inserts that is completely automated (except for user input to start the job). This project is the culmination of the efforts of a couple people. I wish I had more pictures to share of the assembly process but due to the production process of the machine I was only allowed to post the final outcome video.
This machine was programmed using PLC/HMI ladder logic (Allen Bradley), Kepware OPC Server, C++ (used MachRemote from the SDK as a boilerplate starting point, THANK YOU FOR THIS TOOL!), Mach 3 (vbscript macros were very important), and this utilized an SQL server to pull jobs from a table. The gcode job files were all generated automatically by another company and were placed into a directory made available to us.
https://youtu.be/iNm1ICjzpO8Hope you enjoy it!