WELsoft Website Notes
Note 8
Target audience: CNC machine tool users/owners
Subject: Only Emco?
WELsoft products are for the older Emco CNC lathes and mills. It all started out of irritation at the fact that some Hertfordshire schools had Emco 5PC lathes gathering dust because the BBC computers which used to drive them had died. The outcome was our first product, WELturn.
We have no plans to produce upgrades for other makes of elderly, but mechanically sound, CNC machine tools with outdated controllers. If you have an old, rarely used CNC machine tool gathering dust in your school, don't scrap it: you will get next to nothing for it anyway. One day, the original manufacturer may have an upgrade for the machine. It is also worth doing an Internet search as there are third party upgrade systems available which can be fitted to a range of machine.
September 2002