All the examples I've seen utilized Block Step for spot welding. I could be wrong but I seem to remember the commands associated with the weld gun were only available in block step.
Posts by ericwiz7923
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Got called over to one of our IRC5 M2004 laser weld cells this morning. The Tech had performed a warm start and now the pendant goes through its initial boot up and then just shows a loading screen and says "Connecting to Controller". Looking at the Computer Unit in the controller I've noticed the Main Computer Status LED is staying Solid Red. Reading the troubleshooting manual it indicates a faulty disk. Are there any extra troubleshooting steps I can take to verify this and what would be the best way to remediate this issue? ABB has been called but this cell is a critical piece of equipment and needs to get up and running asap.
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So is the issue with line 33 or the stuff you actually have commented out?
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Look at the Decompose, Trans, and Point commands in AS Language, that's where I'd start. I'm pretty sure Kawasaki has a vision and synchronous conveyor software add on so that might have some more bells and whistles added to it. Reach out to your Kawasaki Rep and see if they can pass on the associated literature.
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Sorry, i don't understand your question, can you explain ?
Did you find a resolution to your problem?
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How did you make out with this?
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FYI I was told by a Kawasaki corporate engineer utilizing IO Link devices with Kawasaki IO would be really impractical because the limited IO range of the robot.
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LOL! Needless to say the email thread got spicey!
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So more details. My coworked had sent a cmos backup already. Our robot controller is a dx200 where the integrator is trying to dump that backup into a dx100. Sounds like thats the issue?
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I am not familiar with Motoman robots so forgive me if this is a Rube question. I'm being asked by a outside integrator for a copy of my cells CMOS backup. Is a Dx100 style controller capable of generating this type of backup? My coworker who normally handles the motorman robots is out this week, and had previously stated that he provided all relevant backups already to the integrator but the integrator is insisting he needs a CMOS backup. My Coworker seems to be under the impression that this integrator may be trying to dump the backups from our DX100 controller into a non-DX100 controller hence the disparity in file type the integrator is encountering. Does this make sense or is my coworker mistaken and simply didn't provide the correct backup or doesn't know how to generate a CMOS backup?
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We have this blown cpu on a old weld assembly cell (circa 2009), would any of you have this component available for sale?
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Hi. Dave,
Please, is possible that you can share the K-Roset webinars videos with me?, since I have not been able to access them, they are marked as private.
Contact your Kawasaki Rep. They can get you a link to the video series.
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End user guys,
What process does you company utilize to verify the implementation of a DCS system during integration or after a modification to an existing DCS system? Obviously this is something that HSE should spear head but what over all is your process?
Machine Integrators,
Same question as above and also feel free to give any examples you seen while out in industry at customers sites.
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I'm looking at ways to improve the cycle times for one of my lines and I was curious if anyone had experience with the Kawasaki proprietary vision systems (K-VFinder/K-VStereo)? How is it to set up and support? I'm sure it can be used for simple part/shape identification? Right now the robot does a 300 mm/s -800 draw through two mechanical limit switches that are used to check the presence of casted battery terminal posts. I'm pretty sure we could cut that time in half with a vision camera verifying the posts are present. If anyone has had experience with the Kawasaki systems I'd love to hear your critiques. I'll also be looking at Keyence and Cognex as well.
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How does everyone handle remotely supporting their FANUC equipment. Right now I can remote in to the PLC and HMI's of our lines to aid my skilled tradesmen in troubleshooting, but I am at their mercy when it comes to troubleshooting/interpreting what the teach pendant is telling them. Fortunately/unfortunately our Fanuc lines just flat out run, so my techs don't get a lot of experience with the TP. We have sent them out for training in the past, and I regularly provide quick lessons but they struggle with the "If you don't use it, you loose it aspect" of the knowledge/lessons they are shown. Is there a way to remotely view what the TP is displaying at one time? Is that the purpose of ipendant?
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Figured it out. Need to un-check this box. WTF!
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From what I know about KROSET updating, unless it's additional models, then it's always uninstall the previous version and install the new version of KROSET.
That's how it has been since version 1.6 and the same with this version too.
The MyKhilibraries folder is never deleted when uninstalling KROSET, therefore ALL previous projects are never lost and the new installed version then points to this folder, meaning you still can use/access/modify previous projects.
When updating, I always copy MyKhilibraries folder anyway (just in case) and have never experienced loss of project data before, I do think though any projects made with versions prior to 1.81 are not guaranteed to work.....but again, I have never found this to be the case yet.
The unzipped folder (I think is >1.8Gb) should contain the following files and you uninstall the previous version using the windows standard uninstall programs feature, then just setup.exe in the folder below to install the new version.
That would be my problem then. The zipped file has all the correct files shown in your screen grab. Somehow when I'm extracting it its deleting most of the files. Once its extracted it only has like one or two of the .ini files.
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Oh I definitely will. I have one robot with Cubic-s and have never needed to do anything with it after the OEM installed it. As a risk mitigation move my company sent me to Kawasaki for the Cubic-S training this past spring. I'm hoping to get some more practice in this way for in the event there is an issue I'll be a little more comfortable with the software. Right now I'm fighting on trying to update my K-Roset from v1.81 to v1.84 with little luck. the update file I received from the Kawasaki download center doesn't have a set up application in it, and none of the literature I've found explains how to use the file I did receive. I'm swapping emails with Kawasaki now about this.
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Kawasaki Cubic S users really need to come together and feedback to Kawasaki that integrating CS Configurator into KROSET should be done in their future KROSET releases and maybe they will listen.
Did you see there is a way to upgrade the K-Roset software to link/integrate in CS-Configurator?
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Wow! that helps. It looks like I had the poses correct, but I never messed with creating a program for it. Now all Ill have to figure out is how to reach A3 correctly. Thanks!