Getting time and date from the Robot

    Good morning everyone,

    I am currently working with a FANUC CRX 10iA which is connected to an engraving machine.
    The engraved parts contain a date and serial number. Every day, we start the serial number at 0001 and start counting up again.

    The problem is that the machine is not 100% reliable and doesnt always reset the number when the date changes, so we have to manually do so. This causes problems when the worker is not around at midnight and cannot intervene.

    Is there a way to solve this with the robot? We would need to get a request for the current time or date (whether it is still the same day or wheter the time has gone to 0:00) and then send out a signal for the machine to stop. I have not found anything on date requests so far.

    You can get the current time from system variables.

    Look for $SYS_TIME, $SYS_TIME.$HOUR, $SYS_TIME.$MINUTE.

    You can write a BGLOGIC program that gets the data from the system variables into registers and based on the desired conditions triggers an digital output to the machine.

    Edit: I think the variables are not present in R-30iB Plus.

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