karol

Hello, I have been browsing the web, looking for ANY information about controlling the Krauss-Maffei machines and found your post. Here is what I have figured out so far: 1. the MC4 control unit can be controlled remotelly via ethernet 2. there is an OPC server, offered by the KEPWARE company, see: http://www.kepware.com/Products/download.asp 3. The server works with many drivers, one of them is a driver for MC4, and lets your code access it, if you can use OPC communication mechanisms. For details please go to: http://www.kepware.com/Menu_items/industry...Foundation.html 4. The server can be downloaded as a demo, running 2 hours. After 2 hours it has to be restarted. It is quite good, because 2 hours seems be enough long time for tests before you buy a server (ca. $800) 4. The problem is, that you still need some documentation from Krauss-Maffei, because you need to know, what is a name of parameter, you want to read. That's all what I know. Please contact me, if you want to discuss anything related to this topic. If you have made any progress, it would be very nice, if you can give me any hint. Regards, Karol.