Firsts in the Industry - MDSI Innovations

Consistent Developer of New Technology

Consistently developing innovative soft motion technology for more than ten years, MDSI has transformed the motion control industry with genuine invention:

• First to offer an unbundled software CNC
• First to offer a reconfigurable CNC—just one piece of software for any machine
• First to offer a shrink-wrapped software CNC running on Microsoft Windows NT
• First to offer a complete Application Programming Interface (API) for all levels of real-time and non-real time
• First to offer off-line software simulation of CNC
• First CNC to be Windows DNA for Manufacturing-compliant
• First to integrate Microsoft Visual Basic for macro programming
• First to enable complete CAD/CAM integration with the CNC, using Microsoft VB script
• First CNC to enable the Internet for machine and process diagnostics
• First to integrate SERCOS digital drives with software
• First to have a CNC built on a real-time data base architecture—for automatic collection of all machine data
• First to announce support for FireWire servo communications
• First CNC to support all five IEC-61131-3 PLC programming languages, and flowcharting
• First to create an open XML standard for publishing data from equipment

In an industry dominated by bundled hardware/software proprietary CNC solutions, MDSI has proven that even high-end, multi-axis CNC machine tools can be controlled entirely from software—without any motion control cards, proprietary hardware, or embedded firmware.