Thanks Skyefire. That's a fair explanation and well made.
What are your thoughts on Motologix from Allen bradley and Yaskawa then? With that set-up most of the robot programming is in the PLC via function blocks. It's a step further than what I'm talking about, I don't want to eliminate the need to program the robot, but just make the accessibility of robot data in the PLC a bit easier.
Excuse my ignorance on the matter, I just thought with all this talk of industry 4.0 and the adaptive machine, I thought with ABB being a massive player that allen bradly would look to make the integration of both a bit less work.
Thanks