La Mesa, California – Shop Floor Automations (SFA) re-branded their Hardware line as the Connect Series in the Summer of 2016 and soon a new part in the Wireless Connect family.
The WiFi USB Connect is in the testing stages at SFA so that it will be ready for customers at a future date. Here are the technical aspects, so far:
The WiFi USB Connect from Shop Floor Automations is a wireless USB solution for the manufacturing shop floor. It emulates a USB stick, allowing you to share data from a PC to your machines. No drivers are required – after a quick web configuration, plug it in and it’s ready.
The device serves as an easy and economic shop floor upgrade. Data can be stored on a remote PC, or locally in the device’s memory, with the device itself providing up to 128 MB of storage.
Floppy drive emulators and CNC machines with a USB port can now have wireless abilities. You will also have different transfer modes to customize your storage solutions.
Users can set the WiFi USB Connect to rename, move, or delete a file after transferring. Data sources include network shares, FTP, email, SMB, cloud services, etc.
One of the benefits of this device will be that machine will see the files at their machine on the USB as soon as they are added to shared folder. Machinists will not need to walk to programmer or find them to get needed answers. Also, a wireless connection to the shared folder will eliminate cabling needs for control.
Source: Shop Floor Automations