Posts by NeySEA

I would suggest a R-2000 for larger hot tubs and perhaps a CRX Cobot for smaller ones and any work that’s “hands on / performed in close interaction and proximity with the robot laminating team process members. The r2000 can do the high volume higher weight lamination production work ,product demold work, product edge routing/ cutting /deburring and product moving needs. Call us and I would be glad to speak together on this. John

Very impressive debugging ! There is much Fanuc Robot Programming bedrock u can appreciate and learn from reading this thread. Thank you Hawk, TP77 and rest of forum members for this. John

Don’t you mean a DI digital input to reset the payload confirmation from a outside source ? Or am I missing something ? CRX 25ia thank you John

KB Have you figured out this transportation question yet ? Fanuc requires for all robot deliveries Cobots included an “Air Suspension Equipped “ point to delivery vehicle and preferably a dedicated vehicle like a Sprinter when weights are possible. The Fanuc CRX Cobots to my understanding, can be transported standing up in there “90 degree straight up or sling /hoist posture and put onto a foam base of material but that is still a risky proposition. Did you move them to Vegas ? When is your show ? What model Cobot ? I have put LR-Mates in my front seat of my SUV seatbelts included and never had a problem but I’m curious about the CRX Cobots and your solution here . Thank you . You could always call Fanuc directly and ask them. John

Did you do any work on this project yet ? We can help you directly make this Fanuc new chopper gun upgrade project a reality newtween is an Fanuc. I’m a fiberglass boat builder by trade and we have some really good mold positioning and path optimization software guidance and controls for this application along with Fanucs support. Let me know. Thx J

We do it now. I believe you simply want to use other style starting method and in your Karel routines logic just use call program and it will call whatever tp program you have named provided it’s in the same directory of the compiled karel . pc program. We used to use a number field next to the tp program names we wanted to call but since have modified the Karel program with a variable so all it looks for now is the named TP program your Karel program wants to have execute. You must have end statements at the last line of your TP programs for your Karel routine to move to the next Karel routine in your logic . I can check more specifics for you if you need but we have this same Karel program setup using the TP with an html HMI page that controls the whole system . Basically you need to just use other start method on the controller use the html HMI on the TP browser to start the Karel program and subsequent calls to any TP program you have on that Karel routine/routines

Thank you scooter !! That’s helps me a ton and I’m on it !!

Thank you !

Thank you very much Nation for the information. That make much more sense. The sensor is a KEYENCE FR-S01 radar sensor. It can be wired npn or pnp. It has several digital inputs and outputs which can be set up for pre selected distance points normally open or normally closed , can be used as an analog output current sensor value and also has the ability to be an io-Link slave bus sensor that can talk to a Io-Link master. I believe it can do most of these simultaneously. I want to wire it and use it first now as a simple PNP digital /discrete setup . I’m pretty sure all my existing digital inputs and outputs connected to this Robot are PNP…but I’m not sure like you said if the integrated ports on the upper arm are wired/configured the same as the AiD-16 IO card is that I’m using mounted on the yellow backplane ? Are there separate dip switches in the large type A controller model that set the switching type sinking or sourcing NPN or PNP for the arm and the IO exclusively or is it all one or the other ? I think the latter is what recall and again is running on my controller is PNP but I never have been able to find out where that dip switch actually is physically located and what position is proper polarity? The sensor does not draw much current and my current software is version 7.4 or 7.5. I want to use one or more of these sensors to determine and maintain my EOAT to vehicle body part distance standoff using the SKIP Condition and or the Condition Monitor Macro logic. This unless you or anyone else has a better recommendation /method to handle keeping the EOAT 12” away from the body part preferably using digital/. Thank you so much !!

Hi folks,

I have a R2000ib 125l. We want to mount 2 radar sensors on the end of the arm and need to know what is the simplest way to get the sensors powered and integrated into the robot. Like what port and cable assembly perhaps is meant and already interannlly wired for this ?
The base of the robot has 3 Hartling connectors. One is marked RB1 which goes to the large RJ3ic cabinet in our control room. The second and third connectors are empty and labeled AP1 and AS1 from left to right respectively. There is also 2 physical piping air ports. On the upper end of J3 there are three electrical plugs. One EE one AP1 and 1 AS1. Any help is really appreciated. I have manuals but it’s not that obvious of what’s what ? Thanks again for the help here. John

Thank you guys !

Did you figure out what was the reason for the Crx-25ia running so slow ?

How can this camera require 9.4 software when it's so old ?

Keyence does have extremely successful salesman.....any salesman who can persuade an tenured Sr. Engineer to go with there system with one meeting is unbelievable to me really.

What is your price range and reach payload requirements ? Payload capacity usually comes up along with the robots reach and hence it's best to define what kind of welding you want to do with it and what size weldements are you making ?

Not sure from your picture what to it your wanting to use it with but if you look to the far right side of your picture and cabinet the two grey 50 pin connectors populated with all those blue and grey wires is that cabinets current

Io connectivity bus.

What does the last grey module on the far right say and what fanuc part number is it ?

I just did a LR mate 200id with an IB plus cabinet and tried at first to use the crm58 and 59 with those 50 pin empty Honda connectors it came with from Fanuc and after screwing around with it for too many hours I learned here on this forum to buy the Fanuc OEM io breakout terminal accessory or an equal off the internet. The Fanuc OEM io breakout accessory actually eliminates the 50 pin plugs and has its own internal pair of cable fully wired that plug into the crm18 and 19 I think but the new accessory has 50 push super secure easy to work with terminal io wire blocks on it. They are all logically laid out in rows and Columns for each io port and direction. Anyway I can give you the part number and a photo of what I bought from Fanuc last month and also a cheaper Internet close equal of that helps you. It worked like a charm for me ! No more io connectivity hassles ! The io process card you have on your cabinet may already be all you need. Again What's model and part number of that far right card/module and where do all those blue and grey wires go from that far right module ? Just laying unterminated in the bottom of the cabinet ? I think they went and were mapped to a PLC myself which is really good for you if your going to use a PLC. Hope this helps. J

Thank you very much for the information here ! J

Thank you. I'm not sure how difficult it is to upgrade. I do have an active Fanuc support agreement but lm not that excited to dive in to the upgrade. Do you think it's worth it ? I do have a second robot a brand new LRMate 200id7 and I really do not see a ton of feature sets in the newer software but Im not that experienced in this yet. 3 years into working with Fanuc robots. Thx. J

Thank you

We are looking to deploy the DPM option with one R2000ib series robots. We want to use this at first only to dynamically modify robots the z axis / altitude to maintain the robots tcp a constant positive offset height distance/clearance over part. Basically we want to be able to follow the parts horizontal contour profile as the part comes down the line following equiped robot and conveyor. The conveyor speed is slow ...like just slower than average persons walking speed. I thought we could just update position registers from 3 or 4 digital inputs using group DI's like a third party camera/vision system can but am unsure if this approach is ok or DPM would be more effective especially if it works on z axis then we want to eventually use DPM on x ,y,z and roll pitch and yaw path changes for curvy parts. All parts are large. 20 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall with the Z height deviation being the largest variation. Any help or perspectives here on how to approach this challenge with or without DPM is much appreciated. Thank you. John