Re: Home shop Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

> Often it is easier to implement a bit of electrical handshaking

between

> machines as opposed to complicate I/O networking.

This part makes the most sense. run the machine tool till done.
send an output done signal and wait.

the arm/carrier/part loader then gets a start sinal and then it
starts to run it's program till done, then it waits and the
machineing starts.

simple electrical handshaking. no real need for networking.

I see that programming would almost have to be dependant on materials
more than anything else. unless you have some vast supply of all the
rought stock for all the possible projects, you would be limited to
starting off with some pre-determined blank and machine the heck out
of it.

Dave