Generic monitoring application

[Kōkaku kidōtai]

Hello everybody,

in our company we would like to explore possibility od development of generic monitoring program for several robots in production line. We would like to connect several robots to one central server which will gather production and maintenance data.

In your opinion what ind of maintenance/technical (i.e. work-hours counter) data from controller we should take into consideration?

[Robo Guru]

Research the software called FMS.  It is developped by Radix Controls out of Canada.  I believe it allows you to connect different types of devices such as robots and other industrial machinery.  For robots, it collects data such as program backups for revision control.

Hope this helps,
RoboGuru

[KaizenBlitz]

Hi.

Have a look at http://www.arroweng.fi/ . You can connect your robot SYS I/O wrt. robot status (robot runs, robot stopped, fault, user input query wait etc. ad nauseam...) to their system for data collection and  they also provide a push-button box with their delivery where your operators can acknowledge customized error/maintenance situations. This comes with a data collection/display program that records your uptime and once commented by the operators will display the reason for downtime. Also some might appreciate the OEE/MTBF/MTTR etc. functionality that comes with the software.


Cheers,

///M