Posts by jpherbute

Thanks for your feedback HawkME.

We digged into our investigations alongside with a FANUC technician.

No leak found on J4 or J5. Or no other significant issue.

With a thorough inspection, we noticed « uncapped » holes, perhaps due to tool assisted screwing some peripherals such as a cable carrier with a much too long screw, and some newbie pumping grease, thinking it would be a nice idea the grease the rods …

Robot has now been running full speed for 48hours, No excess disturbance, and all seems fine.

I can call it a closed case for now.

Thanks anyway.

Hi all,

I recovered a used FANUC M-710iC/50 - R-J3iC cabinet from 2006, with approx 45k working hours.

Doing our regular service inspection, we discovered a suspicious grease leak from the upper arm, after J4, coming out from one of the upper arm screw holes. We sucked nearly over 1L of grease from the screw hole (see pictures for said holes) and it seems to be "empty" now.

I imagine this is not a regular place to discover grease, but according to different drawings i managed to get, I cannot figure out where it could be coming from. Moreover, I checked on 2 other M-710iC here in the shop, all of theses holes are supposed to be blind ...

Before I set off to disassemble the upper arm, I'd like to get your point of view on the matter.

Did you ever find grease in there? Is there a reason? What should I be expecting? Or has someone had 1L of grease to spare and stored it there for further use ...?

If you have any expercience to share with me, that would be great!

Thanks you all.

Quote from panic mode

this is in one of XML config files for the HMI. should be able to just replace it and reboot. KUKA has application note on customizing this to show E1 or whatever.

Thanks panic mode,

I'm currently looking for such XML files, but I cant find the appropriate one. Looking in C/KRC/USER/SmartHMI.

Is there some other directories ? Can I find such default files from the install backup from D: ?

Trying your solution before a full restore...

EDIT : got it sorted out !

For everyone's knowledge, I did the following :

1. Minimize HMI
2. Navigate to D:KRC_Release
3. Select and copy all files in USER directory
4. Copy to C/KRC/USER
5. Cold restart

Icon and buttons all normal now !

Thanks panic mode

Ok, I will try and let you know later today.

Hi everybody.

I recently powered up a refurbished KUKA KR 500 R2825 KR C4 robot, and noticed a missing icon in the right sidebar.

The manual jogging speed icon is not displayed on the screen, and when pressing the physical "+" and "-" buttons related to the manual jog speed, it actualy changes the program override speed. Pressing the program override physical buttons has no effect what so ever on the system.

Am I missing something? Is there a SmartHMI configuration file to be edited in order to restore the standard display? Or do I have to go through a system restore and hope for the best?

Thanks for your help.

Robot technical data

• Arm: KR 500 R2825 (YoM 2012)
• Cabinet: KR C4 (YoM 2012)
• SmartPAD: 00-168-334
• KSS: V8.2.19
• HMI: 8.1.0.25 B123
• Windows: XPe V3.0.1 Build19

If more information is needed, please feel free to ask.

Hi all,

We unfortunately lost our keys for the CS8 WMS key switch ...

Picture below of said key.

Does anyone here have the generic key code that we can look for to purchase a new set ?

Or the internal STÄUBLI reference for such key ?

Thanks for any help you could provide.

Hi all,

I was wondering if I have a way to "share" points between programs.

Imagine I have a routine for my full path, and I need to place the robot to some known positions of this path (path.src) for adjustments (adustStart.scr & adjustPick.src & ...).

Is there a way to access points from path.dat in my adjust programs ?

I imagine declaring my points in some global manner, or maybe in the config.dat, but I' like some advice on the best practise.

Thanks in advance.

Found the solution earlier in the afternoon. Detailed below if needed :

Change robot type for KUKA SMALL ROBOT ARM (DENSO) ON KR C2sr CABINET.

Needed :
SR_RobotType folder corresponding to your actual robot arm (model name)

• Switch to expert mode -> Ctrl + ESC -> Windows Explorer.


• Copy corresponding Robot type folder on C:/ drive.


• If "cmd" is s not launching from the "Run" propmt, get it from "C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/" (cmdk.exe) and copy it somewhere (Desktop might be a good choice).


• In the "Run" prompt, enter "telnetk 192.0.2.1" to connect to the robot PC.


• When invited (-> is showing) enter "memclr" (returns 0) and then "romclr" (returns 0).


• Reboot by Start -> Restart.


• Switch to the CMD.


• Navigate to your Robot Type folder (cd) and run .bat file (ftpupd.bat or rtfupd.bat). You may close the cmd.


• In the "Run" prompt, enter "telnetk 192.0.2.1" to connect to the robot PC


• When invited (-> is showing) enter "K_IFC_ChangeRobot" (returns 0).


• Reboot by Start -> Restart.

You should have changed your small robot type in the small robot PC.

I have to say that this procedure worked straight forward for me, no error thrown.

Hi guys,

I recently got a KUKA KR5 SIXX robot, with a KR C2sr cabinet running on KSS 7.0.12, and I was trying to get it working, but in vain.

Apparently, my "machine data does not fit the robot type" (actual error message) and therefore I cannot move my robot.

When I check the MADA in the setup menu, it is written KRC2SR KR5 R850, which corresponds to the label on the am. However, when I call the ShowRobotType function via Telnet, it gives me the robot 56, which is a KRC2SR KR5 R650 arm.

I have, on the HDD of the robot, a directory called SR_RobotTypeData, which includes some .bat files to apparently set the correct values for the robot, But I am unable to execute it.

Does somebody here know how I can come to a solution to set the correct robot type in the arm ?

Thanks in advance for everything.

Thanks for your reply guys.

That helps me a lot !

Do you by any chance now if an E or F number robot do come with all needed documentation to be integrated ?

What I mean by that is : Can a F number robot be put back to service in Europe ? Or will I be missing stuff like certificates or something ?

Thanks in advance guys !

Hi guys,

Usually working with KUKA robot, I come here today with a question about FANUC robots.

I've seen robot with a F-xxxxx and E-xxxxx number on the plates.

Can someone give me some information about the differences? I can't manage to find any ...

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I had the same issue on a KR180-2 PA.

Turned out it was the A2 radial seal, as said SuperMan.

You can, if needed, place your robot so that the efforts on A2 are null, therefor you will be able to take down the A2 motor and check if it's leaking from here (that's what KUKA did on mine te check).

Bear in mind that taking doiwn a motor involved unplugging it, and migh have you to calibrate back when replaced.

Thank you for your answer SkyFire.

I'm aware of this issue on standards KRC2 cabinets, I encountered several of them once in a while, and always managed to fix them by focusing on KPS or ESC.

However, for this cabinet, things are different. For information, this robot is (well, was) in production up to last week. And this week, on start-up for new production, I had these errors traught away. Amongst some known issues, I had to replace the power supply a couple of months ago, but all was fine afterall.

I'm using the X11 wiring given from the documentation I attached on this post.

The downside is the cabinet itself. It is so compacted that to reach the power level, it takes up to 1h of unscrewing anf cable managing !

Full documentation for KRC2SR is here : https://www.kuka.com/-/media/k…abc0/spez_kr_c2_sr_en.pdf

Thanks for your answer.

Howver, as the controller is a KRC2sr, and not a standard KRC2, there is no KPS, and unfortunately, I do not have any available robot to collect parts from .

I changed the KCP first thing, by a known working one : same problem.

I'll see if I can get my other robot to be stopped in order for me to trys and collect parts from it.

Hi,

I had this issu a while ago, caused by a faulty wire.
Also, check that all boards are well seated.

Hi guys,

I'm facing an issue with my 2006 KR5 KRC2sr : The robot does boot completely, but instead of the working mode on the KCP, I have -?-, and several messages :

• 420 : Local Protective Stop (QE)


• 1 : EMERGENCY STOP


• 20 : External EMERGENCY STOP Pressed


• 404 : NOT-AUS safety controller


• 310 : Safety circuit for drives not ready


• 200 : Drives contactor off


• 203: General motion enable


• 364 : Unknown Operation Mode (?)

This is the exact list, in that particular order. All messages are thrown on initialization finished, and within 1 second.

I do not have the local EStop pushed, and I placed a double checked X11 shunt plug, working fine on my other KRC2sr.

I had a fuse blown, (2Amps F2 fuse) on the G2 board, wich I replaced. But nothing has been improved.

Have you any advices to give me in order to help me sort this out ?

Thanks in advance.

It's me again.

I had confirmation by FANUC, these two different teach pendants are NOT switchable. Thought I would share with you in case someone needs the info

Hi guys,

I'm facing a bit of a question here.

I have to replace a teach pendant from an LRMATE200iB R-J3iB (ref: A05B-2301-C335), and I found one, but the ref is a bit different : A05B-2301-C375

Are these two models switchable or not ?

Thanks for your help !

(if anyone could explain me the diffrences between the ref numbers, it would be awesome)

Thanks for your answers guys.

Quote from Spirit532

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Chips\Device0]

Or this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{1D463511-CE9C-4ED6-BF8E-DA9D988357A0}\0000]

Set "DisplayFlags" to 3 (3 is KCP+Monitor). The image on your pendant can degrade in quality.

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The problem is I don't have any of these entries in the registry ...

I'm aware of the procedure to switch to dual monitor, but the fact is that this particular setting isn't kept in memory on reboot.

Hi guys,

I'm stuck here with an old KUKA KR360 KRC2 from 2003, runing on Win95.

I set the external monitor display going to the Win display settings, and put it on both KCP and external monitor. This works perfectly fine.

The problem here is that whenever I reboot my robot, it doesn't keep that in memory, and I have to go back to the settings and do the procedure once more.

Is there a way I can force that setting to be kept in memory ?

Thanks for everything,

JPHerbute