Posts by BrickBot

Very interresting with the shared folder on D: I might investigate that further. I would really much like to experiment with c3Bridge, but my company is not really open to so unsupported and open source solutions just yet.

I will allocate some more time throughout the week to experiment further with DirectoryLoader and will keep you posted

Hello there

I have a question / discussion topic related to the possibility of updating the robot programs in a KUKA KRC4 compact running 8.5, remotely.

I work for a company which has a large fleet of KUKA robots all running the same programs, and i am currently looking into the possibility of updating our local programs remotely. As of right now, we have to update the programs on each individual robot if we have any changes. This is really a time heavy task. What we want to achieve is to be able to push new and/or updated programs out to the robots from one single source. Then whenever the robot cell is stopped for maintenance or similar, the robot would update the loaded programs to the new ones.

The option packages "DirectoryLoader" and "OptionPackageManager" might be a solution, but I wanted to hear any of your input on the matter before dedicating more time to it.

Thank you for your response

I have spent the weekend researching databases as a concept and I agree with you that it would be too heavy of a task to run locally on the controller.

The type of data that I am storing is just simple points and a few variables associated with each application run on the KUKA robot. Therefor I have chosen to use TXT files and CREAD/CWRITE as a rudimentary database system. The Performance of CWRITE does not concern me, because the controller would only read the instructions upon startup.

I would however like to upgrade this system to a SQL like database in the future, so stay tuned for an update on that.

Hello all

Is it possible to implement a local database on a KUKA KRC4 compact running 8.5.8?

My setup consists of a series of KUKA KR6 R700 doing several different pick and place applications. These Applications comes with instructions ( in the form of pick and place positions) which differs from which product each cell is working on. My intentions are to store these instructions locally on each controller, and then the controller can load each instruction accordingly to which component is currently located in the cell.

I have come across a solution from sql4automation, but as far as I understand the SQL server is located on a different industrial PC or similar.

An alternative solution to my problem is to load all the instructions into separate TXT files using CWRITE/CREAD but the complexity to that solution is far greater than utilizing a relational database.

This is my first post, so I must excuse my possible lack of information in advance. I am looking forward to hearing from you all.