Our next two-day product school is Thursday July 17, 2014 through Friday July 18, 2014. If you are new to Galil, sign-up now! The training will be at our headquarters in Rocklin, CA (near Sacramento).

Galil is focused on providing the best motion control and PLC solutions to customers quickly and cost-effectively.  If our standard product offering does not satisfy a customer’s requirements, we will build a special product that does.

EPICS stands for Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System. It is a set of open source, distributed software tools used extensively for scientific instruments such as particle accelerators, telescopes, and other large-scale experimental installations.

Our next two-day product school is Thursday February 6, 2014 through February 7, 2014. If you are new to Galil, sign-up now! The training will be at our headquarters in Rocklin, CA (near Sacramento).

... It’s a Big Deal For Medical Device Companies!

Galil Motion Control is proud to announce certification for ISO 13485:2003.  ISO 13485 is the stringent quality standard which must be met for the design and manufacture of medical devices.  Even more demanding than Galil's ISO 9001:2008 certification, this rigorous quality standard requires the total commitment to design and manufacturing excellence.  Galil's accreditation demonstrates our commitment to provide motion and I/O controllers that meet or exceed our customer's requirements for  medical device and other exacting markets.

GalilSuite-Overview

GalilSuite Revision 1.0, released on Windows in January 2013, is now available on Linux Red Hat 5.x.  GalilSuite is a powerful and flexible tool for configuring, analyzing and tuning Galil motion and I/O controllers. GalilSuite provides an impressive user interface, servo tuning capabilities with multiple tuning methods, real-time scopes, multiple device management, and simplified communications. In addition, a comprehensive GUI as well as automated help for all tools allows easy management of the complete system.

Introduction

This article provides a more advanced introduction to the Galil COM library. Specifically event based execution will be introduced using the three COM library events, onRecord, onMessage, and onInterrupt. The example will guide users, with minimal experience, to build the following application.

In this application, the GalilTools COM library is used in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 to develop a user interface for the Galil controller. The goal is to create a simple interface that features both directional buttons for mouse interaction and the ability to poll for keyboard input. Using this digital stimulus, the application is to act similar to an analog joystick control interface. The completed user interface is visible below.