I just got a new Titan 25T from someone that bought one but had a change of plans in their business. After spending some time going over the machine and getting everything completely dialed in (straight, square, parallel, and calibrated).
I’m working through learning the workflow and have a few thoughts about the machine and its UI that I hope folks from Langmuir will read and consider for a future update to the control.
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Ability to delete custoem punches, dies, etc: There are a number of places in the UI where you can create custom items, but there isn’t a way to delete them. This seems like a basic function that should be present.
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Popup notes when running a job: When creating a bend, you have the ability to put in notes in for the bend as well as each axis of the back gauge. Create a toggle to enable display of these notes as a popup when starting that bend. Example note might be “Back gauges - Left at X 12.500, Right at 18.250” This way the program is self documenting and the operator can be informed about any changes to the machine configuration that might need to be made while running the job. By making the notes display a toggled option, it can be turned off if desired.
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Full documentation on punch and die shapes: The existing documentation for the dies shows heights and angles, but it would really useful to have a fully dimensioned drawing so we can incorporate that into cad workflows.
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Additional parameters for punches and dies: Include the Ton/LF rating for punches and dies in the configuration and factor it into the tonnage validation so operators know if they are using a combination of tooling / materials / bend parameters that will exceed the tooling limits, much like what is done with the tonnage calculations.
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Offline programming: I’ve seen this mentioned before, but its worth bringing up again just to emphasize how useful this would be. The user experience enhancement and utility gained by being able to pull up a way to create bends and programs while sitting in an office with the unfolded cad drawing of a part up on a second screen would be immeasurable. Standing on the shop floor with a printout to do programming is fine for some cases, but certainly not the best option when working on a complex part. Transfer from programming station to machine via network would be the cherry on top. I’m tempted to install a pikvm in the interim, but it seems silly to have to power up a machine on the shop floor and use a kvm just for offline programming.
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On-system organization: I’ve seen this also mentioned elsewhere, but the idea of creating folder structures for organizing bends and their respective jobs would be a big enhancement. Within the first few jobs I’ve created, it quickly became evident how the machine is going to become more cumbersome to use the more jobs I run on it.
I hope these ideas make it into the pool for consideration as most would require very minimal changes to the software to implement.
