Hi folks,
One of my many ongoing projects is repairing an MDC (also sold by Manncorp and Mekko, but made in Japan by MDC aka Mamiya - not the camera company!) ECM97 pick-and-place machine. Thus far, I've got most of the mechanical issues sorted, but I'm curious if anyone else happens to have one of these machines, any documentation or software.
I've scanned the manuals I have for mine (an ECM97CWL - Conveyor Feed, "not sure what W means", LaserAlign) and have an image of the hard drive - including the LaserAlign diagnostic software and the Panasonic PANATERM servo drive config tool (which I haven't been able to get working... yet).
What I'd be really interested in is a copy of any of the following:
- Original software install disks (rare as rocking horse manure from what I can gather)
- Documentation
- Documentation for the PC I/O cards - the Kumagai KP422 motor control card, and the "digital I/O card". I'd also love to know what the connectors on the Kumagai card are. They're almost like Hirose FX2s, but not quite.
Nice to haves:
- A spare servo drive (Panasonic MINAS Ex Series or similar) and motor to run up on my bench. Needs to be cheap. I'll probably start a thread in For Sale And Wants for this thing.
- A replacement LaserAlign HD sensor head. Mine has a half-dead laser. I'd like either another one with a dead laser (so I can play surgeon and still have one working-ish unit) or a working unit. I'm not picky.
I've got a load of scanned documentation for my machine, which I should be able to put on an FTP soon-ish. The only thing that's proving difficult to get scanned are the A2-size fold-out schematics (!).
My eventual goal for this thing is to replace the clunky (read: buggy) Pentium PC and DOS software with something a bit more modern (probably a RasPi mated to a custom STM32 or similar motor control board), then add on bottom-up and top-down vision via a few USB video capture pods. But that's a pipe-dream project. Something to keep me occupied over the course of a year or so, or longer
And then make boards with it. Of course.
Cheers,
Phil.