How does a fully configured Linuxcnc system compare to industrial controls.

-there are 3 chinese companies that make laser cutters and use LinuxCNC for those, another one did the same thing but hired a dumb f@k that called us here "morons" and lost his job, probably hired someone else that was also here, so that makes 4 companies, just have a read through this forum where laser are mentioned.
-another chinese company uses LinuxCNC for big paletising robots that stack boxes with a redone GUI, i installed 2 of those, the GUI just says "Lcnc", but under it sure enough is LinuxCNC with its classic ladder. There are a lot of things still in English in there.
-about 10 or more years back, one of the big hard drive manufacturers in Taiwan used LinuxCNC (EMC2 back then) for running the fully automated assembly line, no GUI that i could see
-about 2-3 years back i bumped into a eastern European factory that sold lathes and mills with LinuxCNC, GUI was redone and name was changed but apparently left the "calibration", "show hal configuration", "hal meter" and "and scope" on one of the settings page.
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If anyone feels so inclined, i am sure some of the big boys are using it disguised with fancy GUI's and added features....
I do not blame them, reliability is exponentially better than whatever they were using under windoze.
P.S.
When i mention reliability of LinuxCNC, ONLY Axis GUI is reliable from the fancy GUI's included. That is my "yard stick". The underlying stuff is extremely reliable.

JR1050 wrote:

I’d still kinda like to see the tool table straightened out. 

You mean tool-editor, of course? 

A tool database manager with a graphical front end might be a useful project. Something that does the things you describe but has a proper database behind it, and sends tool data through the new interface: linuxcnc.org/docs/2.9/html/tooldatabase/tooldatabase.html