Parallelling UOPs...

[engrmerc]

My client has a 2000i robot with an RJ3ib controller in a machine load/unload process.  They have a situation where the operator is on the opposite side of the cell than the controller, and there are occasions where the workpiece will get stuck within the machine during the unload cycle.  Unfortunately, due to part cooling, the unload cycle is very time critical (the amount of time the operator has to react and clear the fault is always close before the part truly gets stuck).

They want to mount a remote station with a fault light and remote fault reset & start PBs, without losing the functionality of the user panel. 

One item, I would hope to add is that the fault reset only functions for the specific fault condition and there is a delay between succesive reset attempts and after a certain number of tries the reset function locks out.  This I am expecting to do in a background program.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[cobenson]

Is there a PLC used for your start signals? If so, add this into the PLC around the other start sequences.

I would just make sure there is some sort of interlock so someone cannot try and cycle both sides at the same time.