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Program execution stopped, CMM still moving

Today I was running a program on our CMM (Global S Green 9.12.8). Stopped the program as it was going to the first clearplane, and then noticed the CMM bridge was still moving. I turned my controller speed down to 0. Tried to modify in the edit window, and it let me, even while it was running. Then I executed my program while it was "running" and immediately hit cancel it again as I did previously to see if it will overwrite the actions it was reading. I then closed PCDMIS. I turned speed up again to see if it was still moving. It was. So I did a full reboot of the CMM, and it's fine now. Has anyone ever ran into this before? A rogue program running even without the PCDMIS software?
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  • I've seen this before. Turned out to be that the machine was "constipated" with data between the PC and the controller. This was an a large machine that could very well have seriously injured people. Fortunately, it only caused 6-7 probe heads and 2 cars to be destroyed. Took Hexagon almost 2 years to find the cause, although they paid for everything except the cars.
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  • I've seen this before. Turned out to be that the machine was "constipated" with data between the PC and the controller. This was an a large machine that could very well have seriously injured people. Fortunately, it only caused 6-7 probe heads and 2 cars to be destroyed. Took Hexagon almost 2 years to find the cause, although they paid for everything except the cars.
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