DCT Technology Releases MOS V1.0 CNC Equipment Operating System Software
Advanced Machine Operation System Enhances Manufacturing Efficiency and Precision
In February 2025, Tianjin, China — DCT Technology (Stock Code: 839939) officially released MOS V1.0, an innovative operating system designed specifically for CNC equipment.
With the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing and CNC processing technology, equipment operation faces continuous new challenges. Drawing on extensive application experience, DCT has integrated technical expertise and specialist knowledge into comprehensive software to enhance the cost-effectiveness of modern and future manufacturing equipment.
Comprehensive Machine Control Solution for Modern Manufacturing
MOS (Machine Operation System) V1.0 is DCT’s first machine operating system, running on computers to manage CNC equipment hardware, provide human-machine interfaces, and perform processing, inspection, and measurement according to specified programs. MOS V1.0 offers both an all-in-one version (MOS-PIM: Processing, Inspection, Measuring) and individual or combined versions for processing, inspection, and measurement. Its main features and characteristics include:
Intuitive and Intelligent Operation
The interface adopts an open Windows style that is both professional and user-friendly with a high degree of intelligence. The foolproof operational guidance process makes after-sales training and new user onboarding easy. Users can customize their operational environment according to personal habits, making experienced operators more efficient. The system truly achieves a “what you see is what you get” approach, with intuitive and effortless control that makes functions immediately apparent.
Powerful File Editing Capabilities
The system supports file rotation, translation, and mirror transformation, as well as path element selection, sorting, merging, scaling, and relative movement. It also allows changing path layers and grouping paths by region. MOS integrates professional CAM data processing modules, supporting the import and editing of various data formats including DXF, Gerber, HPGL, and G-code. The editing process remains smooth even with tens of millions of data points, eliminating the need to open separate CAM software for complex data processing.
Seamless MES Intelligent Interconnection
The MES module is based on Industry 4.0 standard protocols, supporting Web API, Web Service, SECS, CFX, MODBUS, IPC-SMEMA, and more. It not only offers free access to all ports for third parties but can also be customized for proprietary communication protocols. This greatly reduces the technical barriers to interconnection, providing strong information assurance for centralized management, intelligent decision-making, and collaborative manufacturing.
Efficient Automation Module Integration
All automation instruction sets are modularly encapsulated. Depending on equipment configuration, users can either reference mature templates or customize them according to specific needs. For new application scenarios, testing personnel only need to edit processes or change sequences to quickly validate new modules’ execution flow and operational efficiency. This truly achieves a low-code configurable application mode, eliminating the human and time costs of repeated development and validation.
Rich Adaptive Targeting and Positioning Modes
The targeting and positioning system uses self-developed libraries that are more specialized than commercial ones. It supports regular target graphics such as circles, crosses, squares, diamonds, and triangles, as well as irregular shapes like edges, corners, and templates. Positioning modes support both whole-board and panel positioning, as well as local area positioning. The positioning results can be transformed using proportional rotation, translation, and scaling, or non-proportional distortion adaptive mode. These diverse positioning modes adapt to various process application scenarios.
Professional Marking Module
The marking module includes template creation, label settings, and program creation. Different encoding rules can be created for different templates, supporting fixed codes, dates, serial numbers, and various encoding systems, as well as circular, line segment, and grid-type path filling modes. Templates can be configured once and reused repeatedly, meeting both simple marking needs for characters, barcodes, and QR codes, as well as professional marking requirements with multiple rule combinations.
2D & 3D Measurement Support
2D measurement supports both manual specification for quick measurement and image recognition for precise measurement, as well as programmed preset steps for automatic measurement. 3D measurement can measure the depth and taper of circuit board paths, the area and volume of surface-mounted components, and observe the roughness of paths or through-hole sidewalls. Additionally, the measurement module can be used as independent software with other measurement tools.
Superior Compatibility and Adaptability
The MOS system supports industry-standard lasers, control cards, cameras, and other auxiliary components, continuously upgrading as the market evolves. It supports mainstream brand lasers including IPG, Awave, EKSPLA, TRUMPF, PI, Edgewave, Coherent, Spectra-Physics, and INNGU; motion control cards from Leadshine, GOOGOLTECH, Delta Tau, ACS, and DCT; galvanometer control cards from SCANLAB, SCAPS, JCZ, and DCT; cameras from Daheng, Dahua, Hikvision, and Grayspot; as well as various processing auxiliary components including power meters, barcode scanners, and height sensors. This superior compatibility enables adaptation to virtually all types of CNC processing equipment on the market.
Versatile Application Modes
Depending on hardware configuration, the system can support mechanical drilling and milling functions, laser scanning processing modes, and measurement of processing results for dimensions and depth. This truly achieves multi-purpose equipment and multi-functional software, maximizing hardware potential and increasing equipment value.
About DCT Technology
DCT (Tianjin) Technology Development Co., Ltd. is dedicated to advancing manufacturing civilization by developing direct processing methods, material processing equipment, and industrial software. The company provides precision laser equipment and complete technical equipment for the production of stencils, circuit boards, and other components to research, industrial, and educational customers.
Currently, DCT Technology’s laser precision drilling, cutting, and graphic manufacturing equipment is widely used in the mass production of bare circuit boards, LTCC, and SMT. Characterized by professional, complete, and integrated software and hardware solutions, DCT’s laser selective material removal, laser cutting, and inspection equipment have become the preferred choice for precision stencil manufacturers.
With laser technology and software at its core, DCT has exclusively developed technologies such as laser/mechanical copper foil removal as an alternative to etching, direct laser solder mask patterning, and bare copper welding, which are now serving laboratory-level PCB manufacturing and small-batch production. Following existing process routes and characterized by small size, compactness, and refinement, DCT’s complete technical equipment for manufacturing circuit boards, ceramics, and packaging substrates is meeting increasingly personalized demands.
For more information, visit the DCT Technology website: https://www.dct-china.cn .
About MOS
MOS is a human-machine interaction platform for CNC processing equipment that integrates processing, inspection, and measurement. Using a graphical operating interface, it efficiently manages and controls the machine’s movement system, vision system, processing system, and other auxiliary components through allocation of machine hardware resources.
MOS supports precise positioning of motion systems at different speed levels, including 3 or 3+2 axis mechanical motion systems, 2 or 3 axis electromagnetic induction scanning methods, high-speed rotating polygonal mirror scanning methods, and 2-axis acousto-optic scanning methods. MOS can perform 2D & 3D inspection and measurement of processing results, primarily applied to CNC processing equipment aimed at achieving additive, subtractive, or modification objectives with high precision and speed requirements.
Users input commands through the MOS graphical interface, which interprets the commands and transmits them to the equipment, managing and controlling the equipment’s complex components. It coordinates the equipment’s various parts to both run independently to complete specific actions and work together to achieve complex functions, while maximizing hardware resource utilization with high precision, fast speed, stable operation, and simple, convenient operation.
The MOS operating system performs three-dimensional hierarchical calibration of core processing components such as lasers, cameras, platforms, and galvanometers, ensuring system precision through interlocking processes. It comprehensively references path optimization, data look-ahead, and on-the-fly scanning methods from top to bottom, seamlessly connecting to ensure system processing speed. It performs online real-time automatic adjustment of table flatness, laser energy, and pulse following modules, with closed-loop control to ensure stable and reliable system operation.
For computer numerically controlled processing equipment, the performance of the operating system reflects professionalism, convenience, and level of intelligence, affecting the operating experience and constituting an important factor in determining equipment value. The MOS operating system continuously unlocks equipment potential, enriches equipment functionality, and enhances equipment performance and value.
