Wescan Systems Limited of Burlington, Ontario,Canada, Power Automation of Pleidelsheim, Germany and MachineMate Inc.of Fond du Lac, WI, USA have signed a long-term agreement to provide superior CNC controls for the Plasma and Flame cutting industries.

The alliance between Wescan, MachineMate and Power Automation has been established to leverage the combined 70 years of expertise in the fields of Profile Cutting and CNC Controls, to provide state-of-the-art PC based CNC products and technology specifically for Oxy-Fuel & Plasma Cutting Machine applications.

A common hardware/software platform affords ultimate flexibility to support up to 64 axes of motion, interface to analogue, digital and SERCOS drives, expandable programmable I/O, and user configurable Human Machine Interface (HMI). PACut programming software enables CAD file import, adding cutting technology to CAD drawn parts, true shape Nesting, and much more …

WESCAN specializes in the production of electronic equipment, and has a global presence in Oxy-Fuel and Plasma Cutting Machine markets through the successful operation of its LINATROL Profile Cutting Solutions unit – a manufacturer of reliable CNC, Servo Drive, and Cutting Control Products - best known for pioneering optical tracing systems and previously known as part of Westinghouse Canada, and Northrop Grumman Canada, Ltd.

Power Automation (PA) is a forward thinking engineering company producing advanced CNC products for industrial machine tools. They are pioneers of PC based motion and CNC control technology.

MachineMate consists of former Giddings & Lewis employees with 35 years experience in the development, application, service, training, sales and marketing of CNC’s for Machine Tools before starting MachineMate in September 2000.

MachineMate and Power Automation currently support an established base of machine OEM’s and integrator’s using current Power Automation PC Based CNC products.

To learn more about this revolution in Cutting Control Technology, contact WESCAN Systems Limited at 905-333-6000, or look for new information on our web site at www.linatrol.com. .