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 seen this too. The company I am thinking of experienced this regularly and got accustomed to it. They could almost recreate the problem. Once the machine got to this stage it was going to complete whatever it was doing regardless of what you did. For example, if you hit E-Stop the machine would stop of course but pick-up where it left off once machine start was pressed. Restarting PC-DMIS didn't help either. The only way to purge the un-executed commands was to reboot the controller or let it complete what it was trying to do.
I am pretty sure it is a firmware bug. If I remember right they were running version 8 on this DC controller. You didn't mention what kind of controller you had but I never heard of anything like this on something other than a DC controller so I assume that is what you have (Global S Green is a fairly new machine and would have this kind of controller). If you happen to be running a newer version of the DC firmware I guess they still haven't fixed it yet (?).
I did bring all this to the attention of Hexagon by the way. A zombie machine is more than a minor problem...
I seen this too. The company I am thinking of experienced this regularly and got accustomed to it. They could almost recreate the problem. Once the machine got to this stage it was going to complete whatever it was doing regardless of what you did. For example, if you hit E-Stop the machine would stop of course but pick-up where it left off once machine start was pressed. Restarting PC-DMIS didn't help either. The only way to purge the un-executed commands was to reboot the controller or let it complete what it was trying to do.
I am pretty sure it is a firmware bug. If I remember right they were running version 8 on this DC controller. You didn't mention what kind of controller you had but I never heard of anything like this on something other than a DC controller so I assume that is what you have (Global S Green is a fairly new machine and would have this kind of controller). If you happen to be running a newer version of the DC firmware I guess they still haven't fixed it yet (?).
I did bring all this to the attention of Hexagon by the way. A zombie machine is more than a minor problem...
