Posts by swilliams13
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I'd agree with that massula, as far as delfoi being a little ahead.
as far as IGM, I'm not sure.
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I have used both of these quite a bit. At my former company, we used Octopuz. They were actually acquired by ESAB last year. Great company to work with. We had some issues getting up and running, but eventually it worked well for us. We had them build custom posts that didn't work the best after they set us up initially, but that was honestly on us as much as it was them. We had Fanuc and ABB robots there. Used mainly for arc welding, with some pick and placing parts. When I was there, we didn't see a huge difference between the two that made us say 'wow', so we went with Octopuz because they had support that worked the same hours we did in Iowa.
I just purchased Delfoi at the company I am at now. I will say that I like their weld interface a little more than Octopuz. That being said, Octopuz is supposed to be coming with a pretty big update fairly soon that is going to improve theirs a ton. The reason I made the switch to Delfoi is that I bought a new robot from their reseller in the US as well, which came with some pricing incentives. Delfoi also has US support now.
I don't have anything bad to say about either company, and I would say you would be fine either way you went. One thing to think about going into it though, be sure you know exactly what you want, and how your robot will function, or how it does now, and make sure that if they have any custom work it is done on the front end.
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....and just realized this post was from 3 years ago.
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I'm not sure if it is on this model or not, but I know some of these had issues where the wires go into the back of the feeder. I think this was more of a Miller problem, but they changed that harness to a 90 instead of a straight connector, as the straight one was pulling all the time and the straight connector caused more strain on the pins inside the connector as the robot moved. I've personally experienced that problem before. That still doesn't fix your calibration problem, but may be something to look at for your welding issues.
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I think you meant to type this in the search box.
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It's very fast, I can say that. The cell I purchased is very simple, just a basic weld cell, so I won't get into any complex programming for awhile. I've used WeldPro and DTPS, and I like the style of programming that Delfoi and Octopuz offers much better, as it is very fast. I can't speak to any other manufacturer's software, but as far as desktop programming speed, it isn't even a comparison in my opinion.
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Just purchased Delfoi at the company I just started at. Although I won't receive our robot for another 17 weeks, the software itself is pretty solid. It is a fairly significant investment though.
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Agree with HawkME. Fuel prices are high, labor is hard to find, and plenty of other things impacting prices of almost everything right now.
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Thanks for the insight SkyeFire.
Totally agree on the used robots -- you never really know what you're getting doing it this way.
Part of the reason I don't want to go with Panasonic is that although they are easy to program, they lack things outside their 'walled garden'. Talking to them you basically have to use outputs to talk in binary which is a pain. I'm hoping I can find a pre-engineered solution to capture what we are doing with this first cell to cut down complexity and cost, leaning a lot toward Yaskawa's Arc World 2000.
Fanuc, Yaskawa, and ABB are probably the most prominent robots in our area. We a couple hours away from the Quad Cities where Vizient(now Lincoln automation, Genesis, and a few other fairly large integrators reside. I have worked with a few of these in the past and have decent relationships built already. I appreciate your reply!
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Hey All -
Recently started with a new company and they hired me to implement welding robotics at their facility. I have about 4 years of experience with doing this, but almost all of my experience has been with Panasonic welding robots. I have a little experience with Fanuc, and none with Motoman or ABB. I hesitate to buy Panasonics because they don't build(that I know of) any higher payload robots, and if we get into material handling down the road I really don't want to have multiple brands. I'm leaning most toward Fanuc or Motoman. What are the pros and cons of either robot with a welding application? Thanks in advance.
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that is how we do it. wish there was, but i don't think so.
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Miller Automation support has provided me with a few different models. I know this is old, but could try them.
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does your robot have extended touch sensing? or do you have to ability to modify your SLS files?
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sorry for the late reply, this is exactly what we had to do. we purchased the honda connector, and we also had to purchase the board to plug the connector into. then we wired up the connector in order to gain some inputs and outputs. But we are up and running, i'll try to post a video when we get it all running! thanks for the help!
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Long story short, we are trying to get this robot up and running to do some activities with children in a month or so. We are attempting to locate the i/o's but this robot apparently doesn't have any. Lincoln and Fanuc haven't been very timely in getting a response to me, but does anybody know what exactly we need to have 10 or so i/o's installed on this robot? currently there is nothing plugged into the CRMA 15/16 ports, and from what i understand this is where the i/o's should be. Any information helps.
Thanks in advance!
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So me being new to fanuc, i just started playing with settings. Ok i'll be totally honest, somebody else is playing with the settings, I'm just telling them which ones to play with haha. I adjusted the V and L dead band settings, to try to keep it from moving out if the seam only moved up to 3mm in either direction. After all, we are putting a one inch weld on this part, right? So far, that seemed to have solved my issues. Is there any disadvantage to using this setting the way I used it?
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Do you use feedback or constant in your TAST schedule?
Do you change weld parameters during weld?
How long is OK section at the beginning?It is possible that you gain setting is two low.
We are using constant in the TAST schedule, we do not change parameters during the weld. The weld looks good for approx 7", and i would say to weld all the way around it is somewhere around 30". L Gain is currently set at 33, i'm checking on the other.
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New to the forum, new to Fanuc. I'm fairly versed with Panasonic robots, but expanding to some ABB's and Fanucs that my company uses. I'm having some issues with a part that we are attempting to weld with one of our systems. I've gained a lot of information from this site, but never posted, so figured now is the time.
We are using two 120ic robots to weld a very large, round part, with coordinated motion. We are welding two separate(but identical) parts at the same time. We are using root pass memorization as we are putting six passes on these parts. 2 inch material. R30iA controller.
The issue i'm having is that when we start welding, it looks very nice. as it works its way around the entire part, it seems like the seam tracking is driving it up and out of the joint. Is there a setting within the tracking schedule that is maybe wrong that would cause this to happen?
Thanks in advance for any help, if i'm lacking information needed, please let me know.