Hi, you can give to the controller the maintenance it needs by cleaning the fans, changing the air filters, with the robot change the oil or grease depends on the robot, check wires of end effector, or welding gun, you can make a study for the grease to see if the gears are in good shape, you can make a study of repeatability, study of backlash, verify harness, verify all wires be tight.
I hope this can help you
Regards
raycor,
Have you experimented with extracting process data (e.g., axis loads) through SNPX? If so, what is some of the more useful data you've used to drive maintenance activity?
Wondering if anyone out there is using (or has used) or knows about any condition monitoring solution of robots. We have large population of Fanuc robots at our plant to maintain. Please share some best practice(s) we can follow to keep our robot's uptime as large as possible.
Thanks!
I know this is a very old thread. But if you haven't seen it yet, FANUC now has ZDT (Zero Down Time). It's a program, that if your robots are running essentially the exact same movement pattern all day, records the "master known" amount of power consumption for each axis as the robot does its normal routine. Then every so often as it runs this routine, it sends an alarm if the power required exceeds the normal amount. This will greatly help you predict if a motor or gearbox is starting to fail, or if perhaps the grease isn't lubricating properly. It will even tell you which motor is causing the problem.
