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IOLAN+ in Control on the Factory Floor
"Indonesian engineering company, Nasantara
Aircraft Industry (NAI), is using Perle IOLAN terminal servers as a facility to download NC files to its CNC machines".
The only aircraft industry company owned by the Indonesian
government, Nasantara Aircraft Industry (NAI), is using Perle IOLAN+
terminal servers as a means to supply NC (Numerical Control) files
to its CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines on the shop floor
of its extensive manufacturing plant in Bandung, Indonesia.
The company designs and manufactures a 25-40 seater,
propeller based passenger aircraft. Other NAI activities include
helicopter assembly and manufacturing of spare parts for Boeing.
NAI has an IBM 3090 computer system which runs CAD/CAM
and CATIA software. 3D drawing files from CATIA on the IBM system
are downloaded to office-based SUN SPARC workstations running a software
application called VERICAD. The software simulates a CNC machine
in operation before it actually sends the NC tool path files to the
CNC machines.
When the NC files have been fully simulated and approved
they are downloaded via the Perle IOLAN+ serial ports, with the CNC
machines being treated as printers on the network. NC files contain
all of the information that the particular CNC machine (e.g. drilling
machine, lathe, mil ling machine etc.) will need to machine a certain
part or carry out a particular operation. In many cases, this can
be carried out with little or no user intervention on the factory
floor.
The Perle IOLAN+ Communications Servers and SUN workstations
were provided to NAI through reseller PT Metrodata, a customer of
Perle's Indonesian distribution partner PT Citrathirza Astarijaya,
based in Jakarta.
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