Subject: NTT
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:28:25 -0500
From: "Rood, Omar" <Omar.Rood@mts.com>
To: "Larson, Rod" <Rod.Larson@mts.com>, "Thoen, Brad" <Brad.Thoen@mts.com>
CC: "Ito, Masayuki" <Masayuki.Ito@mts.com>

Rod and Brad,
1.  Ito's fax said the specimen broke at NTT because of the controller
shutdown.  Yutaka has run the system without the LAN and the controller
still shut down.
2.  I think we have no option but to replace the entire VME box.
3.  Rod, would you take Brad's VME system with you (as baggage) on a
panic trip to NTT.  Have Yutaka meet you at the airport.  Replace the
VME totally and hopefully make the problem go away.
4.  If that doesn't fix the problem then the fall back (suggested by
Fuku) is to modify the parking table control so that it can be manually
run up into park while the controller is hung up.  You'd need to put
some kind of overide signal directly into the PLC up command line.  Then
when Estop is hit to shut down the controller, at least the table
doesn't fall so far as to damage the specimen.
Regards- Omar
