We have a customer that is absolutely impossible to train on proper error recovery. They will manually force the conveyor forward while the robot tool is still in the way of the flights and it knocks the robot out of out DCS zones (they are VERY tight because we have 4 lr mates in a line with roughly a foot of space between them).
It happens rarely, but frequently enough that is a pain to coach them through a DCS recovery when no one there is trained in basic robot handling.
I was wondering if there was a way that I could mute the DCS Zone only in the go to home program, since our homing program moves always in a very safe direction, several of LPOS and JPOS calculations to negotiate a safe trip home.
Can I in set the mute input to a robot output and mute it at the beginning of the program and turn it right back on at the end? Or must it be a dedicated "safety input"? I'm still hazy on my PLC and Safety controller setup, so I am unsure what the difference actually is.