Upgrade Workstation and software for Cyclone TU150

andy ho · Wed 05 Oct , 2011 4:24 am

Any idea where to upgrade my Cyclone TU150 Mitsubishi Robot workstation? The workstation is too old to operate and we may have hard drive failure and there is no way to get new hard drive anymore. Please comment, Thank you.

Wed 05 Oct , 2011 8:38 am

Can you tell us what control system it is ?
Is it the CIM host computer that is down ?
Is it a standard form 486/pentium III PC inside the Cyclone ?
Is it a 3U rack mounted PC card inside the Cyclone ?
Please post photos of the inside of the cabinet so we can advise.

andy ho · Wed 05 Oct , 2011 10:56 am

What It can tell on site is 3 units of Mitsubishi standalone workstation with Denford Tutor Keyboard to control the machine.

We will post the photo to you tomorrow.

andy ho · Fri 21 Oct , 2011 5:40 am

Hi,

Sorry for the delay. I am to attach our site photo where the equipment located. Please comment.

Thank you

bradders · Fri 21 Oct , 2011 8:31 am

I think the Cyclone (TU150CY) is serial No EO5034 1997 (Brunei) and had an Optimised Issuer 4 rack control card. In theory this Cyclone will upgrade, but unfortunately we have not had the opportunity to carry out this type of upgrade and check the control software works OK.

andy ho · Fri 21 Oct , 2011 9:54 am

So what should I do now. You mean if there is any hardware failure on the card or the workstation, you can't support this machine anymore?

Or you have the solution to change the entire data acquisition part together with the software? We don't mind to spend some money to make it work.

Fri 21 Oct , 2011 10:06 am

This type of cyclone control has never been updated to the latest USB control card so we don't know what problems may be encountered electrically or changes to the logic may be required. Therefore it would involve the machine coming back to Denford UK or one of our engineers to perform the upgrade on site.

Going back to the original problem however, I wonder if you can find a replacement hard disk (eg on ebay) or similar vintage PC from which to run the machine ?

andy ho · Fri 21 Oct , 2011 23:58 pm

Please give us a quote to upgrade to USB control card and change of electrical and logic part. Do include an engineer to Brunei service charges as well. Thank you.

andy ho · Mon 24 Oct , 2011 9:14 am

Any update for my RFQ?

Tue 25 Oct , 2011 10:27 am

Hi,
Sorry for the delay - it is school holidays here now so some staff are on holiday this week.
Please let us know some details like establishment name, address, contacts, phones number, emails etc... and we will be able to quote towards the end of this week.

One thing I'm worried about is whether you still want the upgraded Cyclone to work within the CIM or are happy to have it as a standalone lathe ?
Integrating an upgraded machine into the older CIM will be very difficult (if not impossible) as DOS CIM machines work in different ways.

andy ho · Tue 25 Oct , 2011 11:03 am

Thank you for your reply. In fact this machine belong to client from a University and it is main for academic used. So it will be glad if they can upgrade the machine instead of buying new unit. Here is my company information:

MEGAWAYS SDN BHD.
No.8 Ground Floor, Simpang 103
Bangunan Hj Mohd Salleh, Jalan Gadong
BE3719, BSB Brunei Darussalam.
Tel: +673-2426238, Fax: +673-2426239
Email: andy.ho@megawaysb.com
Attn: Andy Ho (General Manager)

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