Wired & Wireless Serial Ports

With our advanced solution you will find the perfect setup for your advanced shop needs or just middle ground between your basic and enterprise shop. Even with our basic solutions you can find a great product for a backup solution to you advanced or enterprise shop.

Wired and Wireless Serial Ports

Wired Serial Ports

    - Network based hardware

• Leverages existing corporate Ethernet backbone
• Run Cat5/6 Cabling to each device
• Every RS-232 port is surge suppressed
• Provides short serial cable runs to CNCs
• Configurations available in 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ports
• Supported under Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 and 2008 server

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The most popular and advanced LAN Based DNC system available. Today, corporate networks expand beyond the front office and engineering department. Network backbones are found on 80% of the manufacturing shop floors. This system leverages the existing investment in LAN infrastructure and supports 100's of CNC's per DNC Server PC.

Wireless Serial Ports

    - Wireless based hardware

• Uses a standard IP Address / Communication Port
• Basic Model with 128 bit Encryption, Plus Model with WPA Support
• Every RS-232 port is surge suppressed
• LED signal strength and wireless connection
• Shorter Serial Runs
• Configurations available 1, 2, 4 port
• Support Bar Code Reader, ethernet or serial ports on CNCs, and PLCs
• Supported under Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 2003 and 2008 server
  
  Using Wireless means the cost of stringing cable is removed, machines with overhead cranes, traveling gantry's or those that are simply too far to cable can be quickly, efficiently and reliably networked. Should you want to move machines there is no need to change cable or re-configure the software. Best of all just about any CNC machine can be connected to wireless DNC and being wireless doesn't cost extra!

Each CNC machine has a wireless device mounted on it that links to the Wireless Access Point to form a virtual cable. The Wireless units receives the NC data, transmits the program into the CNC machines serial port via a short serial cable. Typically, we recommend the unit to be mounted inside the CNC machine cabinet and linked to an external antenna mounted on the top of the machine (like a CB Antenna). The unit can be powered by the 110v power supply or wired directly into the CNC Machine 9-30 volt power source.

As part of this wireless network, any PC with a WiFi compliant network card can be configured to access the wider PC network. Of course all data is secure thanks to 128bit encryption or WPA with our Flex/N Plus Models. Using encryption and spread spectrum technology means wireless DNC is now the most secure and most interference resistant way to network your CNC machines.

Wireless Access Point

    - Wireless based hardware

• Industrial AP's

Access Points sold separately and can be provided by Shop Floor Automations. Can also be integrated with clients existing Access Points, contact Shop Floor Automations for recommendations.

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