The system has been designed for the Press Brake 2 axis back-gauge and hydraulic ram position control. The purpose of that project was to find an inexpensive retrofit controller kit for older units when spare parts for prior century control units were not available.
The system is comprised of two major components: a standard PC laptop and Dynamotion servomotor controller.
The laptop serves as a user interface. It shows encoder positions, user program steps, and other machine health status. The laptop also manages user programs, calibration procedures, etc.
All user program commands are sent to the servomotor controller through USB cable. The controller interprets commands, drives servomotors, and controls ram hydraulic unit.
The user interface has been developed with VisualBasic.NET, while the Dynamotion controller runs on C program.
The customer withdrew while 95% of project had been completed.