E-stop (emergency stop) push buttons, pull cords, and other e-stop devices are designed to be highly visible by using the standard red and yellow colors. These E-stop buttons and pull cords are positioned throughout the robot system on of a…
While the industrial robotics industry has been around since the 1950s, and hit its stride in the 1980s, pursuing an education in industrial robotics is still not in the front of many young students’ minds. Today, most manufacturing and material…
There is a small niche of robot applications where it makes great sense to mount the robot on a rail, providing an additional axis of motion to the robot and improving its reach/coverage. Tending multiple machines with a single robot…
Many customers purchasing a new FANUC robot are curious about what comes with the robot. There are basic changes among the different robot models in size of cables and controller, but our robot unboxing video of a M-10iA is a…
Setting up password protection for your robot system keeps untrained operators out of areas on the iPendant or system setup where they could make unexpected changes and cause downtime or failures. This can save a lot of headaches. We have…
The FANUC teach pendant is a hand-held device used to interact, program, and problem solve the robot and, in most cases, an essential part of a robot system. While there are other ways to program a robot, the teach pendant…
This How-to article is going to go through using the FANUC teach pendant to switch the state of robot cell outputs and simulate and verify inputs for troubleshooting purposes. A robot cell is a complicated system of processes working together…
In this Tech Talk How to Robot Series article we are going to go through the steps to take when you want to jog the robot. In a robot system you may need to jog the robot if: the robot…
Upfront cost is a reason many manufacturers give for hesitating to integrate robotics. In a recent survey Motion Controls Robotics conducted, 65% of the respondents stated upfront costs are management’s main worry and hesitation for robot integration. Motion Controls Robotics…
FANUC’s Dual Check Safety (DCS) control architecture includes safety functions that can be used by the robot cell system designer/programmer to reduce floor space requirements and make fenceless robot cells more feasible. Dual Check Safety software functions (Position Check, Safe…