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When Robot programs is programmed offline in RobotStudio, the installer needs to
test run the program on site to see if the robot is performing its work correctly. Since
the virtual world often doesn’t coincide exactly with the real world the installation technician
often has to modify the work object points, which is very tedious, and takes a lot
of time. If the work object points were saved then the technician could for instance press
a button on the FlexPendant and the robot could move to the defined point instead of
the technician jogging the robot to the point.
When customers want to double the productivity, the robot cell is often copied and
setup on a different location. When a robot cell is copied the new and the old one rarely
coincide exactly. Hence saved work object points would be of great interest even in this
example.
Two more scenarios where saved work object points come to use is when, the robot
cell is built on one place and then shipped to another location, or if somehow the fixture
that the robot is working on has moved.
Work object should be picture illustrated
One of the problems with work objects is that it is hard to figure out how they slope and
lie on a fixture, this problem often becomes evident when customers have to recalibrate
old work objects on a fixture.
Let’s assume a robot is programmed without RobotStudio, let’s also assume that the
robot or tool crashes, or that the fixture somehow moves, two years after the initial
setup. Since someone needs to recalibrate the robot and its work objects they need to
find out where the work object was originally put, where the z axis pointed and if there
were any particular reasons why the work object was placed in that specific way. This information,
is for the operator no where to be found in the FlexPendant, which becomes a
huge problem on the field and often the whole robot cell needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
Pictures of the work object and text explaining it would really be helpful if they were
to be viewed on the FlexPendant. The picture could be taken from the actual fixture
and be downloaded to the controller, the text could be typed in on the FlexPendant.
TCP points and calibration movements
should to be saved
Tools can crash, or they can wear down so that the tool center point (TCP) has to be
recalibrated quite often. The procedure takes time and the result is highly dependent
of how good the person doing the calibration is on jogging the robot and how good his
or hers eyes and patience are.
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