We have an ABB 4400L with an IRC5 controller and a 2 station IRB 750K positioner for welding, a while back the HD in our cell controller died no problem we got a new cell controller and upgraded our system in the process.
Problem: we have over 100 parts we weld on this machine so putting those old modules back into a new system is as most of you know time consuming.
I realize if we had redundancy we would still be running under an old system but it was working great, however the new system with Windows 7 & Robotware 5.15 is better.
I'm surprised there is no redundancy built into these machines? Like the hard drives in a mirrored raid array so if one fails the other takes over.
I have to figure out a way to compensate for a computer component failure.
Would a couple external USB HD's be the answer?
The motherboards in the cell controller & Main are low end and I doubt they offer any protection which I find strange?
R.A.I.D array mirrored HD's
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Capin -
June 9, 2016 at 7:49 PM -
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Who supplied your system / cell ?
Cell controllers are not an ABB "Factory" item, that's supplied by the local (per country) ABB unit and/or the ABB partner if the system is purchased from them instead.Redundancy on the controller is a tricky question but the controllers have a high MTBF and generally it's not an issue.
If you have as many as 100 programs/modules for parts I'd certainly look into an alternate storage, external USB's are quick and easy
but they also have a tendency to be dropped, "disappear", etc. so personally I'd get the FTP option and connect the robot to an FTP server on your network
and that way you'll always have it backed up / redundancy. -
Wolf is our integrator, I have our part modules backed up its the entire HD with OS that I'm concerned about on both the cell controller and main. I need some type of system imaging would prefer to back up to an external HD