Hello all!
We have a Robot Safety Team that spans across 7 plants. I am the only one using Fanuc, with the others ABB. Needless to say there are often some misunderstandings between the 2 protocols.
One of the plants had a technician modify a global variable (basically a PR in my case) and not fully test. Changed over to a new part program and the robot promptly exited its cage. Now they are mandating that all global positions be locked down. We use password login on all of our robots already. I thought it would probably be doable to create a custom password level that allows users to touch up points, but not able to modify any registers. So far i haven't come up with a solution here.
I brought up using DCS to keep the robot from EVER crashing into a hard obstacle. I don't believe that my distance co-workers know what that is and dismissed it. Honestly I don't have time to go through and implement DCS on all of our cells anyways. Push comes to shove I would definitely call in our local integrator to lend a hand though. After all, you can't put a price on safety... until they see the bill