Our customer currently has a spider robot that pick and places bolts. They want to add a new spider robot that will be parallel for cycle time reduction. The robots will do the same exact process. My question is can I take the backup from the current controller and load it into the new robot? Will that cause issues with the license keys? Besides updating the workobj I am trying to think of what other issues I could come across. Any thoughts? TIA
Duplicate ABB robot station
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John11 -
May 6, 2021 at 3:26 PM -
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If these have same options from ABB there is no licence issue. You can take backup and reload to other. You should change "System name" with Robot studio and load data back from SMB with calibration menu.
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No, don't do it. The serial number will be a mismatch and the calibration offsets will be wrong. Load the needed modules and eio.cfg. Depending on your communication protocol you may need to change IP address if EIP or Profinet.
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Yeah, I would not try putting a backup from robot A into Robot B, for any brand.
For an ABB, you could probably copy over the program files, Work Objects, TCPs, EIO.CFG (but make sure to change the IP addresses!), etc. You should be able to do 90%+ of the work that way -- I imagine you'll still need to, for example, teach the new robot its own Work Object (even if the mount is "identical", there's always some small differences).
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No, don't do it. The serial number will be a mismatch and the calibration offsets will be wrong.
QuoteIf these have same options from ABB there is no licence issue. You can take backup and reload to other. You should change "System name" with Robot studio and load data back from SMB with calibration menu.
SMB load data back required for this situation. It will be fixed with actual SMB data.