Isolated real-time control loop
Motion runs as a hard real-time task that keeps its period whatever the interface, the network and the file system are doing. Setpoints reach the drives on the same cycle boundary every time.
Automation Platform
NEV AUTOMATION · 5-AXIS CNC CONTROL
An industrial PC becomes
your machine's control.
Motion, PLC logic and the operator's screens are built as one project, in one environment. Whether you are building a new machine or retrofitting an existing one, all of it runs in simulation on your own PC before any hardware arrives.
ISO 6983 · IEC 61131-3 · PLCopen
LIVE TOOLPATH XYZ / BC sphere_starball_tcpc.ngc
// HOW IT WORKS
From an empty project to a cutting machine
- 01
Configure
Define axes, kinematics and the fieldbus in the IDE project tree.
- 02
Program
Machine logic in Structured Text, part programs in G-code.
- 03
Simulate
Watch the path and the machine move in the 3D view. No hardware required.
- 04
Run
Connect the runtime to real hardware and monitor live in the operator HMI.
// WHAT THE CONTROL DOES
Accuracy on the part, speed on the path
- 3 TO 5 AXIS MILLING
- SPECIAL KINEMATICS
- NEW BUILDS
- RETROFITS
Tool centre point control
The tip holds the programmed path while the head and the table move. A tilted surface is cut as it was drawn, without the marks left where rotary axes are asked to catch up.
Volumetric compensation
The machine is corrected as a solid: axis error maps, squareness, and where each rotary centre actually sits. Accuracy does not fall away at the far corner of the table.
Corner and path control
State the tolerance a corner may be rounded by, or move the whole speed-against-precision balance with one word. Roughing runs fast and the finish pass runs tight, in the same program.
Recovery from a stopped program
A broken tool mid-cut does not cost the part. Jog clear, inspect it, press RETURN TO PATH, and the program carries on. Cycle start is refused until the machine is back on the path.
Open interfaces
EtherCAT to the drives, OPC UA and Modbus to the plant, and a documented WebSocket API. Machine data reaches your MES, and a client of your own reaches motion, offsets and programs.
// DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM
Debug the machine while it is cutting
Stay connected to the running target and watch real values move next to the code that sets them. You diagnose the machine in the environment you wrote the logic in, and before any hardware exists the same project runs in simulation.
- Live values from the running machine, inline in the code
- Simulate a full project, motion and logic and screens, with no target
- The axis, channel and device configuration in the same tree
// OPERATOR HMI
The operator sees the machine as it stands
The screens are designed in the same project as the machine's logic and bound to the machine's own variables. What the operator reads is the value the control is acting on.
- No separate tag database to keep in sync
- Auto, MDI, jog, probing and offsets in one panel
- Alarms and machine state on the same screen as the part
// TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
The whole machine, from one control
Motion & kinematics
- Kinematics
- XYZ · XYZA/C · XYZAB/AC/BC/CA
- Tool centre point
- G43.4 / .5 / .8 / .9
- Tilted plane
- G68.2 · G53.1
- Corner control
- G64 · G64.1 tolerance · G05.1 levels
Accuracy
- Volumetric
- error maps · squareness · rotary PIGE
- Per axis
- bidirectional leadscrew error maps
- Workpiece
- G54.4 setting-error sets
- Probing
- datum · tool length · calibration
Programming
- Machine logic
- IEC 61131-3 Structured Text
- Part programs
- ISO 6983 G-code · custom macros
- On the panel
- cycle programming, no CAM
- Your own codes
- M codes → your subprograms
Running
- Recovery
- block search · retrace
- Protection
- zones inside the travel band
Interfaces
- Fieldbus
- EtherCAT
- Servers
- OPC UA · Modbus
- API
- WebSocket · motion · offsets · programs
Run your machine on a laptop first.
Once it is installed you can simulate a five-axis machine end to end, without buying any hardware. If you would rather start from the machine you have in mind, tell us its kinematics and drives.