Hi guys,
I'm new here and quite new to FANUC robots in general. I have almost always found a helpful solution to my problems in this forum, unfortunately not this time.
Here's the issue:
We have a FANUC M20iA/35M with the R30iB in an automation cell from an automation supplier for machine tending of a DMG Mori CTX beta 1250 TC. This cell has its own tablet PC from "adstec" with which we can monitor I/Os an read/write to some numeric registers, DOs etc. with text boxes and buttons in an HMI. The tablet is connected via LAN cable to the R30iB.
My firm now has decided to buy some more FANUC robots and to build our own automated cells. Therefore we want to program our own HMI, preferably with a webserver, where we can read & write to numeric registers etc. (e.g. part diameter, height) from a tablet or smartphone. The goal is that the machine operator has to have no in-depth knowledge about robots and robot programming and does not have to pick up the teach pendant for setting up machine tending.
Can anyone of you tell me how to achieve that, or how our automation supplier does it? TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, PC Share...?
I have called the FANUC support quite often in the past weeks and read a lot in the user manuals but I'm not getting anywhere and I'm starting to get desperate.
I'd be very glad if you could help.
Cheers
Joachim