HUGE Mazak fully automated 5 axis laser cutter for pipes/tubes/profiles/

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1 year 3 months ago #331497 by tommylight
Been tasked with making this monstrosity work as it was delivered, mounted, installed, but never tested nor shown it actually works. It is a Mazak with Fanuc controls, has probably over 30 axis in total, pneumatic, Oxygen, 4KW of laser power, nearly 40 meters long, works with 15 meter long tubes, etc, etc.
Took me nearly a whole day to figure out everything due to no prior experience with such machines, and having 3 separate PC's controlling it did not help, but a bit of fiddling and by the evening it was fully working, loading files included.
Next day was spent with the CAM portion and teaching a young employee (actually one of the owners sons) about the procedures of transferring files, copying them into the Fanuc memory, opening and running them, homing everything (3 separate homing procedures), measuring the material (done automatically), adjusting feeds and speeds, adjusting laser power and air assist, changing nozzles, recovering from failed cuts, resetting sensors used for area safety, etc, etc.
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1 year 3 months ago #331507 by weedsmoker
that things sick, i wish i worked around something that epic and complicated, what fanuc is that thing running? when was it even made?
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1 year 3 months ago #331509 by tommylight
160i is what i recall from the naming on the console, it was made in 2012, again i think, as i do not care much about such info when tasked with making such things work.
I will update info whenever i get a chance, as the stress is gone so now i might also do a less shaky video.
I said "i might" ... :)
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1 year 3 months ago #331594 by tommylight

that things sick, i wish i worked around something that epic and complicated,
And terrifying !!! :)
You see those big things on both ends of the machine with the rotating parts? Those move at 60m/m when at full tilt so the whole concrete floor shakes so much that the left servo drive errors out with over current!!! No errors when moving one or the other, just both. At 50m/m all is fine.
15cm of concrete is not enough rigid for all that monstrosity, but no one ever told them. I would venture a guess at least 30cm or 50cm just to be on the safe side, but i am no expert.

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1 year 3 months ago #331736 by tommylight
Anyone here know how to delete the files from internal memory on the Fanuc i160 ?
Having a strange issue (not the first time on Fanuc) where everything works, even copying files from the USB to internal memory, loading said program and ... well this is where it gets fuzzy as it will run the first cut/program we copied into memory no matter what O number program we load.
Even stranger, can not delete those files, no matter what or how.
Had a panic attack last night and went to the hospital at 4AM as i was so pissed off, i can figure every damn thing on that huge machine inside of a day, but can not delete something i copied to it!!!
I refuse to believe that it only works with files on another PC as we are being told, there must be a way to use it's internal memory as it is using it to make the first cuts we copied.
Manual is for an older version without GUI, it helped for some stuff, but for this failed miserably as there is no delete button where it should be.
Maybe somewhere in the System menu???

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