Hi everyone,
I have a ABB robot and a Compactlogix PLC. There is a festo linear drive with a camera on it. There is also a fixed camera. The product has 10 lanes and is indexed on a common conveyor.
The robot programmer wants control of the linear drive and both camera's. I the PLC programmer want control of the linear drive and the 2 camera's and I want to tell the robot when to pick and if rejected to pick again this makes the PLC master and will tie up with the recipes etc.
This is the complicated part as product 1 then 2 etc is needed in sequence. If 2 fails on camera 1 then go get another product from 2 but if camera 2 fails then then product 1 is needed again then retest of product 2 etc.
The robot programmer has won but not with out a fight.
What are the forums feelings sequential robot programming ie if on then .. else .. or real time ladder logic...
I have a ABB robot and a Compactlogix PLC. There is a festo linear drive with a camera on it. There is also a fixed camera. The product has 10 lanes and is indexed on a common conveyor.
The robot programmer wants control of the linear drive and both camera's. I the PLC programmer want control of the linear drive and the 2 camera's and I want to tell the robot when to pick and if rejected to pick again this makes the PLC master and will tie up with the recipes etc.
This is the complicated part as product 1 then 2 etc is needed in sequence. If 2 fails on camera 1 then go get another product from 2 but if camera 2 fails then then product 1 is needed again then retest of product 2 etc.
The robot programmer has won but not with out a fight.
What are the forums feelings sequential robot programming ie if on then .. else .. or real time ladder logic...