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?
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.
Wow. I did not think I'd actually get an answer for this type of scenario. I tried searching and could not find anything on this. Thanks a lot for your reply. I'm glad to hear that no one who was using your machine got hurt by this. The fact that it took 2 years for Hexagon to find the root cause is concerning. How long ago did this happen? If you don't mind me asking.
