O/T What is new from Fanuc ?

[Lars Christensen]

I got maybe a stupid question, but we are having a new machine installed, and it is coming with a Fanuc 30i control, how do I figure out the differents from our 18i control, and now where we are at it, what are the differents between my 18i and 16i control.

Do not tell me that you smart people in here actual are sitting down reading through the manual

 

Thanks

Lars

[john316]

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Okay we won't tell you ,but that's what we do.

 

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[Lars Christensen]

Come on John

In this high tec world there got to be something easier

[Jack Neelands™]

and this

 

 

www.geindustrial.com/products/brochures/GFA-573.pdf

[Allan]

Well; the white paper Jack points to says:

 

Upward compatibility to facilitate execution of

existing CNC programs on the new 30i control with

no major modifications

 

and...

 

Imagine all the features of the GE Fanuc

16i-TB/MB control combined with all the

features of the 15i-MB control in a software

series that will run in a high-performance,

newly designed CNC. Imagine adding even

more features to further enhance overall

performance. Just imagine your next

machine with a 30i control:

 

They add 16i and 15i and get 30i I get 31r or something

 

So I guess you get new functionality and hopefully no alarms on the old code.

[Jack Neelands™]

Im sorry we are not better help Lars...but the PDF file has alot of interesting points

 

Methinks this would be a cool machine to work with

[Rick Henrickson 65]

Lars it is really hard to say, it depends on the machine builder. It is very windows based and the builders are adding their own face copying programs on ours is just like windows the tool data page is seperate from the fanuc data page but it is very nice once you learn your way around

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Diff between 15, 16, and 18 are max number of controllable axes, max number of simultaneous controllable axes, speed of processor, availability of options.

 

HTH

[Lars Christensen]

Thank you guy's, I did play a little with the control over the weekend, and it looks pretty cool, I was supprised when I realized that the 6 pallet pool was controled from the Fanuc control but I guess that after reading Jacks link, this is the 1st. Fanuc control to do this. Maybe I should just deal with and sit down a Sunday afternoon and read the manual .

 

James, I knew it had to be something hidden, The only differents I have noticed between 16 and 18 is the wear in the offset page.

 

Lars