Originally Posted by
shafagh
thanks chester,
By industrial mostly I mean longtime use and hard serious works.
and going to use them for 4&5 axis milling and want them to be at least nearly good as what a Fanuc will be.
Over the past 30yrs I have installed commercial systems, Fanuc, Mitsubishi etc as well as PC based systems using regular off the shelf MB's built in to the enclosure and using motion cards such as Galil and Acroloop.
I have seen no difference in reliability between the two types, in spite of some of the most rigorous environments out there.
The difference you are probably going to see is in the features, although these are now becoming closer, and the time taken for integration, with the PC based usually taking longer.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.