Good Morning All, I’ve posted about this in the past, but I’ve built a system using a PLC and touch screen HMI that has worked for me as equipment access for my student monitors. It can be set up to s

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Thanks for your replies, Steve and Gordon. Gordon, you have done quite the extensive research on this topic! Thank you for sharing your notes. However, after assessing the options I'm now aware of, th

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Ryan, I'm working on a similar project. I have some notes on our wiki that you might find helpful. We're about to test a system made by a local community makerspace (Nova Labs in Reston, VA). For info

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Ryan, I remember Dan Brown was working on one as well when we had SSMC 2017 @ Northwestern. During the conference we all tried it out and it looked very hopeful but I have not heard anything more sinc

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Thank you Ben(s) and Lewis. The Fabman system looks pretty cool, but appears to be Austrian in origin. Penn State has very strict rules about data storage and management by third party vendors, and re

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Hi Ryan My first set up used a Liftmaster card swipe that would toggle the the safety control circuit or a contactor for the power. You would have to program each individual card for the machines the

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Ryan, I don't remember what it's called, some Yale students at the Yale ISAM conference were working on an access control system that they were trying to turn into a business. Anyone on here know if t

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Hi Ryan, We looked at Fabman.io a couple of years ago. They do exactly what you’re looking for in terms of access control, scheduling, reporting, etc. The draw back for us was the lack any university-

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This is very helpful, Leland. Thank you. Best,

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Ryan, Look at safety spot they have been slowly developing a system that recent demonstrations is close as functional as I have looked for in 20 years. The device control at the machine level from a q

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Hello all, I'm currently researching tool/equipment access controls and am not coming up with many compelling solutions. If you have any experience with a system that controls usage by requiring a swi

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Ryan, We have had a fablight for a couple years and have had mostly great experiences. Note that a plus is that it can run on clean shop air, BUT it needs that shop air at at least 175 PSI- we had to

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John, Kevin, and Chris, Thank you very much for the useful feedback. Coherent was on my list of vendors to check out, so I will now cross them off. Fablight was not on my radar, so I'll check them out

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We just got a Fablight 4500 fiber laser for a new shop in our Robotics Building, we haven't had much chance to use it but reportedly also cuts up to 1/4" steel. We tried 1/8" mild steel and it came ou

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Sounds like fun Ryan! Sometimes I miss spending other people's money. I don't know alot about Kern, but back when I was dreaming about a metal laser, FabLight seemed like another viable machine in the

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Ryan, I'm afraid I don't know anything about Kern lasers, but we have a 1000 watt Coherent Meta 10c. I bought it because it is fully enclosed and has a 50" x 50" table and they claimed it would cut 1/

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Hello all, I'm looking at purchasing a 650W CO2 laser from Kern and wonder if anyone is willing to share their experiences with a similar unit (from Kern, or otherwise). I'd like a machine that can pr

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I have found Lightburn to be a massive improvement over RDworks. The documentation is great and the online resources are solid. Well worth the license cost. I have been using Lightburn with my persona

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Hello everyone, I hope all are prepared for the Fall if it hasn't begun already. We purchased a Laguna EX 36 x 50 150W laser from Lagunntools. Service is lousy the machine is just so so. Our beloved V

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Stan, The OmniAire was purchased by my predecessor shortly before I started. It's seen light use over the last year and we have yet to change the filters. The machine has prefilters that can be purcha

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