Hi,
I am working on integrating a milling cell compromising of: Staubli TX200L and CS8CHP controller. I am using a Siemens failsafe PLC to manage all safety functions and to control the spindle inverter and spindle. I would like to be able implement a "feed hold" functionality (pause robot movement, category 2 STOP) that can be triggered by the PLC.
As the robot cell is being used by many people using different post processors I would like to implement this in hardware (as much as possible) so it doesn't rely on the user having the correct interrupts within their program. I would like the PLC to be able to pause the robot movement when an instruction from the robot to the spindle cannot be executed or needs a certain amount of time to be completed. The CS8CHP manual states this can be achieved with the "remote MCP" option however this disables the pendant and I would like to keep the pendant functionality. I would like to be able to map the "move/hold" key to an USER-IN input or IO inputs. I am relatively new to Staubli and am unsure if this can be done or how to implement it. Any help or tips welcome, thank you in advance.
Best,
Vince
