Newbie to Okumas and multi-turret/spindle combos. We have a near permanent job on our LT300. Currently, we have all live tooling in the A-turret, and a combination of stagnant and live tooling in the B-turret. We are basically turning the part and doing face work with the B-turret, then the A-turret comes in and does cross-holes and milled pockets/index work. The sub-spindle comes over to do the passover with the B-turret parting off. Then the B-turret moves to the sub-spindle and finishes work on the back face of the part(this includes stagnant and live tooling).
All of this work is done with A-turret waiting until B-turret completes, and vice versa. I want to make it so that once the B-turret finishes its turning/face work, it can go to the sub-spindle(where the previous part was pulled and parted) and do the back face work; while the A-turret proceeds with its live tooling work on the main spindle.
I understand the use of P codes, but am having a sync alarm issue when telling the machine to turn the sub-spindle on(work being done on B-turret), while initializing live tooling with the A-turret working on the main spindle.
I can post my current program, but its extremely long due to some engraving and pocketing(and could use some cleaning up). I can also share the part print via email, in case it is needed to get an idea of the work.
Any sample programs would help.